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Cold, Dark, and Quiet
The Loftie sleep floor, and the only three things Matt asks people to fix first.
How it works
- 1High sixties Fahrenheit, not 72.
- 2Real blackout, not decorative curtains.
- 3Masking sound if your environment demands it.
- 4Two-phase waking, gentle first then percussive, because the body wakes in stages.
- 5Sleep inertia is real, which is why firing off emails in the first minutes awake is a bad trade.
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