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A popular theme in today’s productivity culture is “waking up early.” It’s considered a sign of discipline to wake up at 5am. 5am is reasonable... if you fall
by meter 3y ago
A popular theme in today’s productivity culture is “waking up early.” It’s considered a sign of discipline to wake up at 5am.
5am is reasonable... if you fall asleep at 8:30 or 9 PM.
I wish we’d stop emphasizing early wake-up times, and start emphasizing reasonable bed times. It takes just as much discipline, especially with my phone so easily accessible and the TV so easy to binge.
- proamdev123 3y agoFantastic insight. It’s far easier for me to get up at 5:00 AM than to go to bed by 9:00 PM. Or even 10:00 PM.
- slothtrop 3y agoBut it's all relative. What's reasonable is what allows you to get a full night's sleep. I get up at 7:20 am ish, so I wind down before bed accordingly (reserving an hour) expecting to hit the sack at 11:20-11:30 pm. The scheduling of wind-down is an effective deterrent against sleep procrastination, which I find manifests itself more when I'm already sleepy. If I watch tv or game earlier, I won't be in zombie mode, and I'll avoid blue light exposure immediately before bed.
- noncoml 3y agoIt would also be great if we’d stop making the 8 hours the gold standard. The amount of sleep a person needs varies a lot and fluctuates over the year and lifetime of the person. It can be as much as 12 or as little as 5.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>It can be as much as 12 If you regularly need 12 hours of sleep every day as base, it sounds like a health issue.
- noncoml 3y agoI would be very interested to read any papers where this is mentioned