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I wake up at 4am to code. Do I win? Growing up I never could understand why my dad got up so early. Now that I'm just into my 40s I understand why: 1. I don
by dugmartin 14y ago
I wake up at 4am to code. Do I win?
Growing up I never could understand why my dad got up so early. Now that I'm just into my 40s I understand why:
1. I don't need as much sleep anymore. I could sleep until noon when I was a teenager. Doing that now would give me a headache and a stiff back.
2. I get 3 hours of uninterrupted kid free time.
You do have to realize that you don't get this time for free. I'm tired by 9pm at night and in bed and asleep by 10pm.
- Tyrannosaurs 14y agoThis for me is the crux of it. You're not creating more time, you're moving your waking time to allow you to make better use of it based on fewer interruptions or whatever. Early morning has fewer distractions than evening (nothing on TV, you can't phone people, e-mail isn't arriving, forums are quiet and so on) which is why it can be productive time for solo work, but you can't sustainably just take that time out of sleep without something (usually one or more of attention span, short term memory, general mood) giving out.