flip-flops at the office

July 11, 2006

When my younger son began work recently at an SF startup, he announced that soon he would be wearing flip-flops to the office. I expressed alarm until he explained that all the principals did so, even the CEO.

The pin-striped shirts he wore to his last summer’s internship at another company have been tossed aside for t-shirts. In other words, he works in tremendous comfort.

Flip-flops have caught on across the pond too.

to sleep, perchance to remember better

A recent study indicates that those who get a good night’s sleep are much better at retaining a sequence of facts, even when that sequence is complicated by new information.