Are sleep-deprived engineers hurting the Web? From...

June 12, 2000 Web posted at: 10:35 a.m. EDT (1435 GMT)

by Jordan Matus

(IDG) -- The new economy may be in the hands of people incapable of operating heavy machinery -- or even walking. Just ask Peter Troob, co-author of Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle, who once witnessed a fellow investment banker fall asleep midstride and walk face first into a wall. "Falling asleep while standing is ridiculous enough, but doing it in motion takes a special sort of exhaustion," he says.

While not always so extreme, exhaustion is common in an economy where employees, VCs and executives are continually burning the midnight oil. In the frenzied startup phase, Internet workers often go with minimal or no sleep for days at a time -- a habit that can wreak havoc on more than just their motor skills.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/12/sleep.deprived.idg/index.html

-- K. (infosurf@yahoo.com), June 13, 2000