Small correction: I actually found Everyman 3 to be a very doable schedule at Burning Man. It’s desirable to stay up really late since lots of neat stuff happens at night, and it’s desirable to not need to sleep past 10am since it gets very hot. So a 3 hour core from 6-9am plus a few opportunistic naps in the shade is an excellent solution. Both Cathleen (who runs operations at Leverage) and I were on duty supporting Paradigm, the effective altruist camp, most of the week, and I think it’s fair to say the quality of experience the camp achieved was due in no small part to the long hours we were able to put in.
The hard part has actually been sticking to the diet after the event, due to being quite sick for a while.
Looking forward to publishing data as soon as we have the time. As a preview, since it doesn’t take any time, here’s a plot of my sleep since starting the experiment. The no data part is Burning Man, which was a similar distribution to the period right before it.
The new XKCD is highly relevant.