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Have you ever noticed whether it's easier to be productive late in the evening?

disiplus 6y ago
for years that was how i worked, without medicine i cannot work in the morning. but i would regularly stay till 2am working.
- tasogare 6y ago
  I have no diagnosticed mental health issue but I was like that too until very recently. I started running once (sometimes twice) a week since a month and I noticed I can wake up before twelve now, I’m generally happier during the day and I can start doing things instead of just thinking a bit easier, even if it’s still far from perfect. My advices for people who didn’t run for years like I was: - starting low (500m or 2min) is the key. Better run a little than not - increment a bit each time - an Apple Watch (or other tracker) is awesome to set a goal and track progression during running. You can export health data on a PC and then do geek stuff with it
rovr138 6y ago
Yes. Like @disiplus, that happened to me for a long time. During high school, college and afterwards, it was just easier to work at night and just stay up until very late. Also having a deadline around the corner gave me the right amount of stress to finally code the solution. It’s not like I didn’t try to work during the day or wasn’t thinking of trying to solve the problem. I actually thought of it and worked out things in my head, I just had trouble sitting and coding it during the day. At night, very late until early in the morning I would just sit and dump it all out. Side projects can still be like that. At work, I’ve learned to manage it. I really enjoy the position I’m in. I work on a lot of projects, have a set of tasks that maybe fill half my day during the week but I can be pulled into meetings, called to fix something else, review code, or help other devs. It’s can be a lot, but it’s working right now.
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- termain 6y ago
  That's very similar to my experience.

for years that was how i worked, without medicine i cannot work in the morning. but i would regularly stay till 2am working.

tasogare 6y ago
I have no diagnosticed mental health issue but I was like that too until very recently. I started running once (sometimes twice) a week since a month and I noticed I can wake up before twelve now, I’m generally happier during the day and I can start doing things instead of just thinking a bit easier, even if it’s still far from perfect. My advices for people who didn’t run for years like I was: - starting low (500m or 2min) is the key. Better run a little than not - increment a bit each time - an Apple Watch (or other tracker) is awesome to set a goal and track progression during running. You can export health data on a PC and then do geek stuff with it

rovr138 6y ago

Yes. Like @disiplus, that happened to me for a long time. During high school, college and afterwards, it was just easier to work at night and just stay up until very late. Also having a deadline around the corner gave me the right amount of stress to finally code the solution. It’s not like I didn’t try to work during the day or wasn’t thinking of trying to solve the problem. I actually thought of it and worked out things in my head, I just had trouble sitting and coding it during the day. At night, very late until early in the morning I would just sit and dump it all out. Side projects can still be like that. At work, I’ve learned to manage it. I really enjoy the position I’m in. I work on a lot of projects, have a set of tasks that maybe fill half my day during the week but I can be pulled into meetings, called to fix something else, review code, or help other devs. It’s can be a lot, but it’s working right now.

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termain 6y ago
That's very similar to my experience.