Forget getting rich at IPO time — coding isn’t the job of “rock stars” or “ninjas.” It’s the blue-collar job of the future. Solid. Predictable. Stable. Paying a living wage. Clive Thompson writes in a short piece for Wired that we can’t quite get out of our heads: “When I ask people to picture a coder, they usually imagine someone like Mark Zuckerberg: a hoodied college dropout who builds an app in a feverish 72-hour programming jag—with the goal of getting insanely rich and, as they say, ‘changing the world.’ But this Silicon Valley stereotype isn’t even geographically accurate. The Valley employs only 8 percent of [America’s] coders. All the other mns? They’re more like Devon, a programmer I met who helps maintain a ­security-software service in Portland, Oregon. He isn’t going to get fabulously rich, but his job is stable and rewarding: It’s 40 hours a week, well paid, and intellectually challenging. ‘My dad was a blue-­collar guy,’ he tells me—and in many ways, Devon is too.”

On a similar note, Fast Company argues — in one of the most transactional stories that we’ve ever read — that it’s not learning a tech-based skill that will advance your career, it’s realizing what every investment banker knows in his or her bones: “Your network is a job skill.”

On Peter Pan, memory, and sleep: J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan encodes thoughts about the way sleep contributes to memory maintenance that were far ahead of where the research stood at the time, neuropsychologist Rosalind Ridley found. She got interested in the exploration of Barrie’s insightful work, culminating in a study published by the Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The study explores “his astute observations on the peculiarities of human memories, sleep and dreams, and the puzzle of consciousness,” writes David Robson for BBC Future. “Many of the things being discussed weren’t discovered until the 1970s,” Ridley says.

Sleep helps you remember things: A study published only eight years ago finally demonstrated the relation between memory and sleep. “Our work demonstrates the molecular link between post-experience sleep and the establishment of long-term memory of that experience,” said Susumu Tonegawa, the Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at MIT and lead author of the study, in an MIT News article. “Ours is the first study to demonstrate this link between memory replay and memory consolidation. The sleeping brain must replay experiences like video clips before they are transformed from short-term into long-term memories.”

It is about signals that pass from the hippocampus where the memories are formed, and the neocortex where long-term memories are stored. You know when you sleep just because this day needs to end and you want a new day? This process literally happens in the brain. Your brain connections get reset in your sleep, as it “allows the brain to wind down its activity, consolidate our memories, and be ready to start again the next morning,” writes Ian Sample for the Guardian. So when you don’t get enough sleep, it affects its functions, including memory storage. “Deprived of rest, the brain’s neurons seemingly became over-connected and so muddled with electrical activity that new memories could not be properly laid down.”