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Nice, but I'm not entirely sure about this one: > * Sleep, exercise & healthy food > late night coding Looks like it's against other points. I have a full-tim

Nice, but I'm not entirely sure about this one: > * Sleep, exercise & healthy food > late night coding Looks like it's against other points. I have a full-time job and I'd like to create a brand, too. Thus. I have to do late night coding.

cookiecaper 10y ago
The principle is that you have to maintain health. I think late-night coding is a near-constant because of our brains automatically optimize us onto what pg describes as "the Maker's Schedule". Context switching is anathema to effective coding, so people automatically go to the time when they'll be least-interrupted, which is when the rest of the world is asleep.
- gressquel 10y ago
  You also need to maintain a social life and relationships with family and friends. It will boost the productivity more than you believe
8draco8 10y ago
No you are wrong. In order to get there (build successful brand) you have to take care of your self. With coding marathons, buckets of coffee and fast food (because "I don't have time to cook") you will end up with heart attack before you achieve what you planned.
- andrewjrhill 10y ago
  Not only that but adequate sleep, regular exercise and healthy eating contribute enormously towards healthier cognition. As a developer, I tend to find myself far more productive and successful in a shorter period of time when I am living on the healthy side of things. Everything that is me just works better when I go for a run three days a week, eat clean foods and get in a solid 8 hours of rest a night.
  - cpfohl 10y ago
    Tee hee. 8 hours of sleep. Sounds like someone doesn't have kids. Mostly tongue in cheek, but also slightly serious. There are plenty of life circumstances that preclude all those things.
    - andrewjrhill 10y ago
      You are 100% correct - I have no kids and have the luxury of not having major life commitments blocking my ability to do these things.
sealthedeal 10y ago
getting 3 solid hours of working on your brand a day is much better than 7 bad ones late at night. Wake up earlier, work at lunch, work immediately when you get home. Late nights are not always necessary.
marcosdumay 10y ago
Running from the start as fast as you can will never help you win a marathon.
komali2 10y ago
A full time job is a 9-5. Let's say you commute from 8-9 and 5-630. That means you can gym from 645 to 8 (including travel time), eat decently, do some coding, hit bed around 1030, and be sleeping around 11 (so you have enough time in the morning by waking up at 7). Cook on the weekends, code on the weekends, social life Friday and Saturday night... Do you work more than 40hrs a week? Why? Sounds like you're creating someone else's brand if so.
- GoodbyeEarl 10y ago
  That's so unreal it hurts
  - magic_beans 10y ago
    No it's not. If it is, it means you're probably working too much for someone else!
    - GoodbyeEarl 10y ago
      Maybe you're right. Unfortunately. Thanks for the heads up anyway.
      - magic_beans 10y ago
        Good luck out there.
- gressquel 10y ago
  In my country I work from 08-15, excercise 1 hour. I still have 6 hours left for cooking food and coding before i go to sleep 22
  - GoodbyeEarl 10y ago
    Let's say you have half of this spare time to work on your side project, that is 3 hours. Excluding weekends, how much time would it take to build a business out of your 15-hours-per-week side project?
lacampbell 10y ago
With exercise, I'm finding cycling to work and lifting weights are effective in terms of time. I spend half an hour of my day getting to work and back - probably about 10 minutes longer than it would take in a car. And with weight lifting, I never do any more than 3 sets of 10. The actual amount of time it takes is short. This isn't exactly olympian conditioning, but I do notice a benefit and the time investment is low.
tech3ad 10y ago
You need around 7-8 hrs of sleeping to focus and proper brain functions. Only 3-4% of world people can survive and work perfectly with 4-5 hrs of sleep.

cookiecaper 10y ago

The principle is that you have to maintain health. I think late-night coding is a near-constant because of our brains automatically optimize us onto what pg describes as "the Maker's Schedule". Context switching is anathema to effective coding, so people automatically go to the time when they'll be least-interrupted, which is when the rest of the world is asleep.

gressquel 10y ago
You also need to maintain a social life and relationships with family and friends. It will boost the productivity more than you believe

8draco8 10y ago

No you are wrong. In order to get there (build successful brand) you have to take care of your self. With coding marathons, buckets of coffee and fast food (because "I don't have time to cook") you will end up with heart attack before you achieve what you planned.

andrewjrhill 10y ago
Not only that but adequate sleep, regular exercise and healthy eating contribute enormously towards healthier cognition. As a developer, I tend to find myself far more productive and successful in a shorter period of time when I am living on the healthy side of things. Everything that is me just works better when I go for a run three days a week, eat clean foods and get in a solid 8 hours of rest a night.
- cpfohl 10y ago
  Tee hee. 8 hours of sleep. Sounds like someone doesn't have kids. Mostly tongue in cheek, but also slightly serious. There are plenty of life circumstances that preclude all those things.
  - andrewjrhill 10y ago
    You are 100% correct - I have no kids and have the luxury of not having major life commitments blocking my ability to do these things.

sealthedeal 10y ago

getting 3 solid hours of working on your brand a day is much better than 7 bad ones late at night. Wake up earlier, work at lunch, work immediately when you get home. Late nights are not always necessary.

marcosdumay 10y ago

Running from the start as fast as you can will never help you win a marathon.

komali2 10y ago

A full time job is a 9-5. Let's say you commute from 8-9 and 5-630. That means you can gym from 645 to 8 (including travel time), eat decently, do some coding, hit bed around 1030, and be sleeping around 11 (so you have enough time in the morning by waking up at 7). Cook on the weekends, code on the weekends, social life Friday and Saturday night... Do you work more than 40hrs a week? Why? Sounds like you're creating someone else's brand if so.

GoodbyeEarl 10y ago
That's so unreal it hurts
- magic_beans 10y ago
  No it's not. If it is, it means you're probably working too much for someone else!
  - GoodbyeEarl 10y ago
    Maybe you're right. Unfortunately. Thanks for the heads up anyway.
    - magic_beans 10y ago
      Good luck out there.
gressquel 10y ago
In my country I work from 08-15, excercise 1 hour. I still have 6 hours left for cooking food and coding before i go to sleep 22
- GoodbyeEarl 10y ago
  Let's say you have half of this spare time to work on your side project, that is 3 hours. Excluding weekends, how much time would it take to build a business out of your 15-hours-per-week side project?

lacampbell 10y ago

With exercise, I'm finding cycling to work and lifting weights are effective in terms of time. I spend half an hour of my day getting to work and back - probably about 10 minutes longer than it would take in a car. And with weight lifting, I never do any more than 3 sets of 10. The actual amount of time it takes is short. This isn't exactly olympian conditioning, but I do notice a benefit and the time investment is low.

tech3ad 10y ago

You need around 7-8 hrs of sleeping to focus and proper brain functions. Only 3-4% of world people can survive and work perfectly with 4-5 hrs of sleep.