| My weekday routine: - My alarm goes off at 7am. I ignore it and sleep for another 30 minutes. I do this because it helps me have dreams I can recall, and my biological clock wakes me up reliably anyway. - Drink some water or cranberry juice and check email, HN, etc. - Shower and brush teeth at the same time. - Have a Rockstar Pure Zero energy drink. These have absolutely no effect on me at this point, but it's a ritual I enjoy. People who know me find this absurd, but it's considered normal to pay much more than I do for a coffee or sugar-filled frapuccino from Starbucks every morning. - Drive to train station and take train to work. - The first ~4 hours of work are what I consider my "office hours", which means that it's a time where I am going to work casually on light tasks with the expectation that I'm going to be interrupted by meetings and helping people. I do this for a couple reasons: One reason is that I don't think it's good for people to work hard for more than 4 hours a day, and the other is that I need to block off a period of the day where I can concentrate on an important task. After my office hours, it's unlikely that I'm going to be needed for anything, so I will either work from home for the rest of the day or be slow to reply to low-priority issues. - Get home around 5:30pm. Either eat at Waba Grill or go to the grocery store to get ingredients to make dinner at home. I hardly keep anything in my fridge and pantry because I'm likely to pig out. Plus it gives me an opportunity to be around people. - Work out in my home gym. I have my Xbox set up in front of my treadmill, so I'll play Halo Reach multiplayer while walking between 3 and 4 MPH. No, I've never fallen and hurt myself; I have an excellent inner ear. For strength, I mostly rely on my Total Gym and my pull-up bar. Pull-ups are amazing, by the way. If I could take one piece of gym equipment with me anywhere I go, it would be a pull-up bar. - If it's a Tuesday, my neighbor and I hang out on my porch and chat about life and the state of the world over beer or whisky. - Work on personal projects. I do this way too much, and it takes a toll on my health. Sitting down for long periods of time sucks. - Go to bed between 10:30p, but realistically I'll fall asleep around 11:30p because I listen to lectures on YouTube to wind down. My weekends too often get consumed by coding personal projects. Again, this is a mixed bag because I would be thrilled to create a project that ends up being successful, but it also means long periods of time where I'm not getting outside. If I'm not coding anything, then I'm definitely out in the wilderness. |
That's terrible, you're ruining your sleep circle and losing 30 min of real sleep.