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I'm a 10PM sleeper - the morning is a really under-appreciated hacking time. I've found, generally, that 12AM and later hacking sessions both aren't sustainable
by smakz 18y ago
I'm a 10PM sleeper - the morning is a really under-appreciated hacking time. I've found, generally, that 12AM and later hacking sessions both aren't sustainable and aren't as productive as they seem at first glance. Plus, I'm usually so excited in the morning to get working that I have no trouble getting up (around 5am - 7 hours sleep) to start hacking.
Personally, when I was doing the 4AM hacking sessions, I was working on a million problems at once and trying to build rome in a day. Since switching to regular hours, I've learned to appreciate progress, small steps, and sustainable delivery, and have launched 3 side projects somewhat successfully (and higher quality).
- auston 18y agoI too am a 10PM bed timer, only recently though, it forces me to use the time before bed more productively. Before I would waste time browsing news.yc, digg, watching videos and reading blogs/news. Now I try to catch up on blogs whenever I have the chance and place more attention of developing stuff.
- bobdobbs 18y agoJust out of interest; how old were you when you switched to 10PM ?
- auston 18y agoI am 21 now. I switched a little over 2 weeks ago.
- gizmo 18y agoWhat happened to your social life?
- unalone 18y agoSocial life starts way before 10PM. Not everything social is a late-night party.
- gizmo 18y agoYou miss out on parties, but that's not all. Because sleeping just after dinner is unhealthy (it becomes the equivalent of the late night snack) you also have to move dinner forward to something like 5pm or 6pm. Result - you won't be able to eat with friends anymore. When you go to bed at 10pm you don't just trade a few night hours for morning hours, your entire schedule has to shift. Don't think that's worth it.
- sc 18y agoNo one has to eat the early-bird special because they get a good night's sleep. Listen to your individual body, not the generalized recommendations of others. A normal 10pm bedtime does not preclude late nights now and then, anyhow.
- auston 18y agoWell, to answer your question, not much. 3 out of 4 days Im home around 530. I skateboarding or play basketball with friends for about an hour, eat dinner around 7. Ill then get down to writing code til around 10, then troll blogs/yc for 15 minutes, shower and end up hitting the sack around 10:30 - 10:45. Then there is pillow talk with my gf, which probably the pinnacle of my 'social life'. Then Ive got the weekends to hang with friends and stuff. Does that satisfy your curiousity?
- gizmo 18y agoThanks for the response. I wasn't curious for specifics, I was thinking about the tradeoff between productive and being social in general. That by optimizing your hours for productivity you might lose out on a lot of other stuff. Glad it works out for you.
- icco 18y agoI switched over when I recently got a new job. I need to be up at 5:30 to get to work on time, and if I don't got to bed by 10, the next day sucks. Friday, and Saturday though I tend to stay up later.
- ScottWhigham 18y agoWhen I tell people that I wake up usually around 3-4 in the morning, they think that it's from my alarm clock. It often is but at least 1/5 of the time it's because, like you said, I'm just pumped about doing something I'm excited about. "Gotta get that proposal together" or "I need to finish the code on the shopping cart module"...