I’ve been doing this for years and it’s wonderful. On the few days I need an alarm (someone schedules something early) I’m usually groggy and in a poor mood. Th

I’ve been doing this for years and it’s wonderful. On the few days I need an alarm (someone schedules something early) I’m usually groggy and in a poor mood. The difference in mood and grogginess is so drastic I can tell when I’m getting sick a week or so before symptoms appear because I’ll wake up an hour late and still feel terrible. It’s eerie how accurate your body can signal things to you when left to its own devices. As far as the “work hard, play hard” mentality, I’ve chosen to work at startups/companies where I can come into the office flexibly (usually around 10) and it’s worked great. One final note: I wonder if the rampant depression and suicidal thoughts I had as a teenager, that are now entirely gone, were a product of the fact that I was forced to wake up every day at 6 AM to an alarm. I was such an anti-social, depressed creep it’s terrifying to think we continually subject our children to this sleep-deprivating schedule.