[Redway]

‘In other words, getting four hours of sleep ahead of a big meeting cannot be "made up" by sleeping 10 hours the next night.’

Maybe not but it sure as hell feels good. There doesn’t always have to be some sort of empirically-backed motivation for doing things (and no disrespect to that article but as far as empirical research goes it wasn’t that representative in any more than a preliminary sense as far as I can see). Sometimes things just are what they are for different people. Whether they end up being the healthiest for the average person (according to whatever measures they use to ascertain who that might even be) is up for debate, I suppose, but if you have a catalogue of missing sleep hours that have accumulated throughout the week because of deadlines, day-to-day weekday worries or work, being able to sleep for 9 or 10 hours (not that I per se could sleep for that long without breaking it up some) imaginably does feel pretty good. And it’s probably no unhealthier than treating yourself to takeaways and a bit of drink (or whatever your vices are) for a day and a half at the end of the week. I feel like it’ll just depend on how much sleep the individual person needs and wants at the end.