> b. Don't feed your mind new problems in the last hour or two before bed. This has always been the key problem, for me and I suspect for many others. I need

> b. Don't feed your mind new problems in the last hour or two before bed. This has always been the key problem, for me and I suspect for many others. I need to be asleep by midnight or 1am if I want any chance of feeling okay the next day. That means I need to stop working around 10pm or earlier, to give my mind ample time to just fucking let go of whatever I was concentrating on. I can leave the laptop open, browse reddit, follow Twitter links, or watch TV. But the IDE and email have to close. It sucks, it's hard, but I discovered sleep is pretty damn valuable, and most of the time what I'm working on isn't actually due at 7am the next morning.