Two Sleeps, One Manager

A first sleep after dinner, a second before dawn, and a quiet hour in between for reading. It's old-fashioned, and it works for him. Historians describe segmented sleep as the norm before electric light, and this framework keeps its best feature: forty minutes of undisturbed reading at 1:40 am, every night, with no phone and no one awake to interrupt. Days are a manager's: a commute, meetings until noon, and a long afternoon for everything else. Evenings are family time from dinner until the first sleep. A morning walk on weekdays, strength on Saturdays and a long Sunday hike keep him moving. What you'll learn: that waking in the night isn't always a problem to fix, and how a small daily ritual adds up to a lot of books.