The "no email before 11am" mirrors my approach, which is no email before noon, which in turn was inspired by Karl Friston, who I met a couple of times during a

The "no email before 11am" mirrors my approach, which is no email before noon, which in turn was inspired by Karl Friston, who I met a couple of times during a neuroscience masters at UCL: "His greeting to the group is liable to be his first substantial utterance of the day, as Friston prefers not to speak with other human beings before noon. (At home, he will have conversed with his wife and three sons via an agreed-upon series of smiles and grunts.)" https://www.wired.com/story/karl-friston-free-energy-principle-artificial-intelligence/ https://www.wired.com/story/karl-friston-free-energy-princip... (I should add for balance that a couple of colleagues that I know said he was a nightmare to work with in terms of getting things done on time though!) The one this I disagree with in the article is the alarm clock. Much better to go to bed at a time where you'll wake up naturally roughly around the time you want to. (Presuming you're not the kind of person who'd naturally sleep for as long as you're left alone, in which perhaps there may be other things - caffeine intake, too much alcohol, eating badly etc. - that it might be worth focussing on first.)