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I dis­cuss mela­tonin’s ef­fects on sleep & its safety with re­search up to 2015; I segue into the gen­eral ben­e­fits of sleep and the se­verely dis­rupted sleep of the mod­ern West­ern world, the cost of mela­tonin use and the ben­e­fit (eg. en­forc­ing reg­u­lar bed­times), fol­lowed by a basic cost-benefit analy­sis of mela­tonin con­clud­ing that the net profit is large enough to be worth giv­ing it a try bar­ring un­usual con­di­tions or very pes­simistic safety es­ti­mates. O ne of the problems with ‘productivity’ gimmicks is assessing their worth. Many of them claim immeasurable gains⁠⁠1⁠, dubious gains⁠⁠2⁠, or clear gains which mayn’t be worth the overhead⁠⁠3⁠. The benefits of others are perfectly measurable, like adding keybindings⁠ for repetitive tasks; just time the manual way versus the shortcut, and multiply it by the usage. But then the cost is hard to measure. How to assess the price of creating, learning, and rendering habitual a custom shortcut? There are scads of use

--- title: Melatonin description: Melatonin improves sleep, & sleep is valuable created: 2008-12-19 modified: 2015-02-14 status: finished confidence: likely importance: 9 css-extension: dropcaps-kanzlei ... > I discuss melatonin's effects on sleep & its safety with research up to 2015; I segue into the general benefits of sleep and the severely disrupted sleep of the modern Western world, the cost of melatonin use and the benefit (eg. enforcing regular bedtimes), followed by a basic cost-benefit analysis of melatonin concluding that the net profit is large enough to be worth giving it a try ba

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