Buckminster Fuller’s 1943 sleep hack: two hours a day, split into half-hour naps

A US postage stamp shows Richard Buckminster (1895-1983), architect, designer and inventor (Olga Popova/shutterstock.com)

“Sleep is just a bad habit.” So declared Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion car, and the Dymaxion house, in a 1943 TIME article announcing his latest innovation: Dymaxion sleep.

Fuller’s theory was that hum…