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I always wondered if my night owl tendencies were nature or nurture (staying up late for inexpensive long distance and calling night-only BBSes) and I've gravit

I always wondered if my night owl tendencies were nature or nurture (staying up late for inexpensive long distance and calling night-only BBSes) and I've gravitated to a career that embraces that mode (SRE, Operations, on-call positions) . It seems that society seems to value the 'get up early' more than the 'stay up late' ability.

ilamont 8y ago
That's right. That may a holdover from our agrarian roots, when people had to get up early to milk the cows or work in the fields before it got too hot. It's become institutionalized in modern society ("9 to 5", schools scheduled in the morning and early afternoon, etc.)