Foundations 4
Do you even flex, bro?
You might remember our first Foundations post,1 where I defined a “flex” as a “nap that begins before noon (baller move).” We love flexes — ‘nuff said, amiright?2
Well, when I try to explain why a flex is such a baller move, I find myself at an uncharacteristic loss of words. However, I think some of the logic is reflected in the following exchange taken verbatim from the TAENR this morning:
While there are definitely times when we3 need a nap, I think it’s generally fair to say that most of us want (or at least wouldn’t mind) a nap just about all the time.4 So to knock out a nap so early in the day…well, it almost feels like showing off…conspicuous consumption applied to napping.
What happens when we extend this line of reasoning? If it’s a flex to nap before noon, what about when you nap even earlier in the day — say, before 10:30, as I did this morning after a bad night’s sleep? It looks like the consensus within the TAENR is that this is still just your run of the mill flex, that you don’t enter the realm of “superflex” until you’ve napped before 9am. Let me ponder…
We’ve all had our experiences with a superflex, as Hen intimates in the TAENR snippet above — hope he turns that into a post someday. I have more thoughts and questions, but we’ll have to address them another day, as I’ve just hit my allotted 250…
Going way back to January 2nd, the third TND post overall! Makes me wistful…
The royal “we.”
See earlier discussion by , who is as great a hang over Google Meet as he is with his writing, about corporate culture and how it pushes us all to and often beyond the point of exhaustion.