Why pulling an all-nighter just isn’t worth it

IT’S never worth it. Even though this time last year in this same column I recommended it, I was talking through my fundament.

You can check your leather-bound scrapbook — the one in which no doubt, you’ve kept all my articles. “There’s no better way to get things done” I wrote or something along those lines.

I’m talking about the all-nighter — the tremendous feat of human achievement where you work all night to do all the work that you were supposed to do in time for a perfectly reasonable deadline but because of procrastination and dossing, you are now in a panic.