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by daniellarusso 1922 days ago
I am leaning towards this, by 9:30p, I am starting to feel very sleepy and I am usually in bed and asleep by 10p.

So, 6.5 hours of sleep though? I need either 7 or 9, but 8 does not work for me.

So, I would be looking at 5a.

Let me ask you, do you immediately start coding, or do you need a few minutes to ‘warm up’?

What is the morning ritual, if you don’t mind me asking?
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brutus1213 1922 days ago
Haha .. I thought I was unique in waking up early/feeling asleep early. Guess I have good company. Ritual for me is tip toeing to the basement to avoid waking up the kids and grabbing some caffeine. Biggest challenges are distractions - news, youtube, and hacker news. I need to get better at just focusing on code and not going off on tangents.
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hnrodey 1922 days ago
What I have found to be helpful is that sites that I might find myself wasting time - Twitter, Reddit, etc. - I block these sites via the `hosts` file. I do this on the machines on which I want to find myself productive.

On my whatever laptop - the Internet is fair game.

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fy20 1922 days ago
I've done this sort of schedule quite a lot since my first kid was born (nearly 2 years ago). We share a bedroom, and they sleep a lot easier when I'm there too - often I just go to take them to bed, and end up falling asleep too at 9pm :D

I will wake up and let my brain wonder, then get up after 15 mins or so. By that time I'm wide enough awake to start coding straight away and know what I want to accomplish in the time I have. I don't check my phone at all in this time, as that'll lead to spending two hours down a rabbit hole on Reddit.

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perplex 1922 days ago
> do you immediately start coding? What is the morning ritual?

I wake up, get dressed in the dark, and go downstairs where I immediately start coding. I leave all the lights off and focus solely on my task at hand, and I typically use a todo list in bear.app to know immediately what to work on.

Breakfast comes at 6:30am when house wakes up. Since I'm WFH for day job I can shower do morning routine before work, which usually starts around 8am.

edit: typo

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