
On-Call at Night: Managing Screens When Work Never Ends
On-call screens put the light thief and the job thief on your nightstand all night. How to keep the pager, lose the feed, and still sleep between pages.
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On-call screens put the light thief and the job thief on your nightstand all night. How to keep the pager, lose the feed, and still sleep between pages.

Caffeine in soda counts against your cutoff the same as coffee. Cola carries 30 to 40 milligrams a glass, and dinner is later than you think.

The best sunrise alarm clocks for gentle waking, which features actually matter, and how a dawn clock fits into a morning light routine that works.

Chocolate before bed carries 25 to 70 mg of caffeine per dark bar, plus a reflux risk most people never connect, so the treat deserves the same clock as coffee.

Green tea vs black tea for sleep: both carry caffeine, green usually less, and the honest answer is about milligrams and timing, not the color of the leaf.

Fan noise and sleep get along better for some people than others, and the reason is change, not volume. What masking does, who wins, and what to try instead.

White noise vs pink noise comes down to masking sudden sound, not finding magic frequencies. What each actually does, what the evidence says, and how loud to run it.

Do sunrise alarm clocks actually work, what the gradual light really does to your body clock, and when the gadget helps versus when waking gets worse.

How to mask street noise in a bedroom without renovating: why sudden noise wakes you, how masking works, the volume rule, and when earplugs finish the job.

Reading before bed, myth vs fact: does it really help sleep, which format counts, why paper beats the feed, and the two-page effect explained.