How To Pull an All-Nighter

My typical solution for how to pull an all nighter is don't, unless there is some horrible deadline. Life's a marathon, not a sprint and those extra 8 hours of increasingly less productive time (~6 hours @ full capacity) will cost far more than this in lost productivity working off that sleep debt. The author also talks about the 6 hours he spent prepping it and that 90 minute talk and a couple hours playing cards... everybody could just put in 2 extra hours a day for a week and nobody hoses their days? I think all nighters feel more productive than they are.

I don't get it... so many articles explaining how to do something so simple - so long as you're not doing something you absolutely despise or is terribly boring, it's just a matter of making a conscious decision to remain awake despite the time....

Many times I find my alarm clock ringing its wake-up call while I'm still hunched over my PC churning out the code, because I'm in love with what I'm doing and couldn't let it go just so I can sleep.