Morning coding works best for me. Night coding also works, but tends to mess with my falling asleep and decrease the quality of my sleep. If I'm in a tight sp

Morning coding works best for me. Night coding also works, but tends to mess with my falling asleep and decrease the quality of my sleep. If I'm in a tight spot I find it more effective to not work later, but to sleep a bit less and start a few hours earlier. I get most if my productive day done before everyone arrives. Then I just muddle through the day at limited capacity until either the evening or next morning. I think there are 2 keys to this: * I think there is contention on some mostly unconscious cognitive resources. Social processing seems to be an antagonist for deep focus for me. I focus deeper an longer when no one else is around. * There seems to be memory/history effects in the short term. In the morning some "buffers" and "staging areas" are clear making it easy to build a good focus and flow. As the day progresses it looks like these can get scrambled.