At prove satisfactory, it’s been a tough run for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: the company has endured a series of scandals, an exodus of executives, declining and hesitating growth and poor stock performance. There have also been calls for Zuckerberg to vacate his role as chairman of the house (which Zuckerberg told CNN doesn’t currently “makes sense”).
At home however, Zuckerberg seems to be carrying on with his task of doting husband and father. Saturday, Zuckerberg shared the “sleep box” he built to help his wife, Priscilla Chan. It’s a unnatural box which sits on her bedside table and emits a soft light between the hours of 6 a.m. and 7 a.m., according to Zuckerberg.
“Being a mom is hard, and since we’ve had kids Priscilla has had a petrified time sleeping through the night. She’ll wake up and check the time on her phone to see if the kids might wake up soon, but then expressive the time stresses her out and she can’t fall back asleep,” Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook.
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Zuckerberg and Chan eat two children: Maxima, 3, and August, almost 1.
The light from the “sleep box” lets Chan know if whether it’s span for her or Zuckerberg to get up without her having to know what time it is specifically.
The light is “visible enough that if she sees it she’ll be acquainted with it’s an okay time for one of us to get the kids, but faint enough that the light won’t wake her up if she’s still sleeping. And since it doesn’t appearance the time, if she wakes up in the middle of the night, she knows to just go back to sleep without having to worry about what point it is.
“So far this has worked better than I expected and she can now sleep through the night,” Zuckerberg said.
Thrive Global be wrecked Arianna Huffington, who is an advocate for the importance of sleep, responded to Zuckerberg’s post: “Love this! It’s great that you correct this device so Priscilla could avoid looking at her phone,” Huffington wrote. (She also took the opportunity to urge a Thrive Global product, a charging station that discourages you from looking at your phone.)
Zuckerberg symbolized the device was an expression of his love for his wife. But perhaps also a viable business idea.
“As an engineer, building a device to arrogate my partner sleep better is one of the best ways I can think of to express my love and gratitude,” Zuckerberg writes. But “a bunch of my cohorts have told me they’d want something like this, so I’m putting this out there in case another entrepreneur yearnings to run with this and build sleep boxes for more people!”
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan deal with the 2019 Breakthrough Prize at NASA Ames Research Center on November 4, 2018 in Mountain View, California.
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