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> I've personally found that dark hours are more productive for mental tasks like programming. AFAICT not because of secondary factors like quietness or people
by de_watcher 8y ago
> I've personally found that dark hours are more productive for mental tasks like programming. AFAICT not because of secondary factors like quietness or people being around, but simply that bright light undermines my ability to concentrate.
It's more like the Balmer's peak effect: the brain is so numb that it can't lose the concentration.
- mindslight 8y agoWhy are you using negative terms to describe something you seemingly have no experience with? I wasn't talking about running on fumes at 2am to pounding pounding pounding techno music. I'll have days where I do not feel fully awake until it starts to gets dark. Given many mammals are nocturnal, I would presume there's some bona fide physiological reason for this rather than a deficiency of something else. At any rate, there's a huge difference in stating advice in a personal-constructive way (for instance, I'm fully aware I presently need to detox caffeine cold turkey, and am waiting for the opportunity to do so), and pushing paternalistic "one size fits all" social mores whereby people on later schedules are assumed to just not be taking responsibility for themselves.