If your trip is 48 hours or less, stay on your home schedule.
The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
If your trip is 48 hours or less, stay on your home schedule.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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but I would say if it's three days or less, stay on your home schedule as much as you can.
So let's talk a little bit about a different form of jet lag that requires no planes, no trains, no automobiles, and that's shift work. Shift work is becoming increasingly common. Many of us are shift working, even though we don't have to. We're doing work in the middle of the night. We are working on our computers at odd hours, sleeping during the day. Here's the deal with shift work. If there's one rule of thumb for shift work, it's that if at all possible, you want to stay on the same schedule for at least 14 days, including weekends.
If your trip is 48 hours or less, stay on your home schedule.
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