Archinect - News2024-11-08T04:36:41-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150186335/when-work-keeps-you-up-at-night-what-do-you-do
When work keeps you up at night, what do you do? Sean Joyner2020-02-24T18:58:00-05:00>2020-06-29T22:01:04-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/65/65a569951394e8e9220de46a3d8cae54.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Losing sleep can be a drag. Especially, since we know sleep deprivation drastically impacts the cognitive functions so crucial to work in architecture. Things like judgment, critical thinking, problem solving, planning, and organization, are but a few of the influenced aspects of our mental health, writes Rebecca Zucker in her Harvard Business Review essay entitled<em> <a href="https://hbr.org/2019/12/how-to-stop-thinking-about-work-at-3am" target="_blank">How to Stop Thinking About Work at 3am</a>.</em> In the piece, Zucker offers some strategies to combat one of the causes of sleep deprivation — thinking about work when we should be sleeping. Here are 3 of her pointers:</p>
<ul><li><strong>Make a to-do list: </strong>According to research by Baylor University and Emory University, makings a to-do list for the following day helps us fall asleep faster, writes Zucker. Many times, our preoccupations with work at home are due to uncompleted tasks. Writing them down acknowledges them, putting them out of the mind.</li><li><strong>Engage in physical activity: </strong>Exercise and overall <a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150148213/the-importance-of-physical-fitness-in-mental-performance" target="_blank">physical fitness help in our mental performance</a>. Whe...</li></ul>
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Editor's Picks #415 Nam Henderson2015-05-14T09:32:00-04:00>2015-05-15T12:32:20-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/1j/1jsczvbcyz04bgw6.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="http://archinect.com/NickCecchi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nick Cecchi</a> penned a <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/126542532/the-motley-life-and-uncertain-legacy-of-lina-bo-bardi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">review</a> of ‘<em>Lina Bo Bardi: Together</em>’ on view at the Graham Foundation through July 25th. He found the</p><p>"<em>narrow focus wisely limits Together to investigating the conditions and experiences that helped shape Bo Bardi’s mature approach to architecture...Bo Bardi’s work and life resist reduction and compartmentalization into terms easily digested. To experience and understand Together is to experience the sum of conflicting experiences, opinions, and buildings Bo Bardi brought into this world</em>".</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/s1/s1u86rz23q82wc1z.jpg"></p><p><strong>midlander</strong> commented "t<em>hat drawing of chairs is beautiful! I love her work. It's rugged and big without being standoffish. Knew nothing about her background - interesting</em>".</p><p>Plus, <a href="http://archinect.com/nicholaskorody" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nicholas Korody</a> published <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/126783591/architecture-of-the-anthropocene-pt-3-getting-lost-in-the-ozone" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Getting Lost in the Ozon</a>e, the third installment of the recurring feature <strong>Architecture of the Anthropocene</strong>.<br> </p><p><strong>News</strong><br>This week at the <a href="http://convention.aia.org/event/homepage.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AIA National Convention</a> in Atlanta, Georgia, NCARB <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/126787225/ncarb-will-resolve-intern-architect-title-debate-at-aia-national-convention" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">aims</a> to settle the debate over the title “Intern Architect” with an address by CEO Michael Armstrong ...</p>