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How social are the people trying this? Do any of you have jobs with scheduled anything? Go to classes or events that are 2 hours long? Having "more hours" a day, if works would be great but it seems to be insanely inconvenient for anyone who spends a lot of time driving or wants to watch a movie or go to a concert or needs to work with people. Assuming the final "quality" of the hours you have ends up on average unaffected by sleep deprivation, the extremely weird and disciplined schedule still seems terrible to me, and I don't even have a job that is particularly scheduled. This strikes as something that gives you more lonely hours at the cost of wrecking a lot of the hours you might have with people. This is less of a problem if you're in a community of people doing this but still seems pretty rough.
So there is a market opening for an entire firm or school of people who do this.
That's a huge reason why most people don't stick with uberman. Even uberman, once adapted, allows for 3.5h wake times.
Everyman, though, allows one to be quite functional with just a few naps earlier in the day. My current schedule (core 0030-400, naps 0730, 1130, ~330) has the first nap around the time other people are getting up anyway, and then the second during lunch, then the third is fairly flexible, and I have it whenever in the afternoon makes sense. I'm a student; my lunch is the same time every day, but sometimes I have to push back the afternoon nap or skip half a lecture to take it. At any rate, I'm totally free during evening/social hours, aside from not being able to stay out late. It appears, though, that periodically one can do an earlier core then stay out, or do a late one, and this is not so bad.
When I was interning at a tech startup, I would just nap as I needed/wanted. Based on another recent round of interviews, it seems that about a third of tech companies are supportive, a third supportive, and a sixth each reluctant and completely disapproving. Small companies tend to be in the more pro-nap groups, larger companies vary widely. (I didn't keep actual stats on this, so the fractions are rough. The number of companies I asked was <10.)
That basically why there are no people who stick with the shedule for multiple years.
There are ways to adjust your sleep if you miss a nap. I think you typically just extend the core sleep time.