The Cost of Sleep Deprivation

Dove Charney founded American apparel with an open door policy to employees. By 2014 he wasn't sleeping at all and was micromanaging the company like a madman, writes Julian Zelizer. The overworked person creates a crisis that they try to solve by working harder, says Zelizer. People say, I'll sleep when I'm dead as they hasten their trade-off for more hours of work - both literally and figuratively.