[sooyoo]

> Nope! I want every last millisecond of sleep I can get

Here is a radical thought: Value the first minutes of your night sleep just as much as the last ones and just go to bed a little earlier.

All this "but it's in my genes" may not be entirely false but its significance is dramatically overemphasized and mostly serves as a covenient excuse for people to not get their act together.

[stemlord]

>its significance is dramatically overemphasized and mostly serves as a covenient excuse for people to not get their act together.

Jury's still out on that for the rest of us but glad you have the comfort of such certainty on the matter

[seba_dos1]

I value my sleep time, which is why I'm not going to bed earlier than when I actually feel like it, as it usually results in hours spent on useless disorganized thinking about everything and not sleeping much.

[Gigachad]

That “useless disorganised thinking” is very important. It’s the first time all day your brain has had a chance to ponder things and not being bombarded with constant stimulus.

[seba_dos1]

No, this is not the welcome kind of "disorganized thinking" you get under a long shower. This is the useless kind that prevents you from sleeping and seems to always have some terrible faux pas from 15 years ago prepared to randomly remind you about.

[HWR_14]

> Value the first minutes of your night sleep just as much as the last ones and just go to bed a little earlier.

What a weird suggestion. That person clearly prefers nighttime to morning time. Why would they trade being awake in the night for being awake at morning?

[sublinear]

I have determined that my unproductivity is just "warm up" time.

If something is due tuesday I'm guaranteed to spend most of monday angry about all the meetings "in my way" knowing damn well even if I didn't have the meetings I'd just be ruminating about the remaining work instead of actually doing it.

As a result, monday night is when everything gets done. This warm up dramatically increases the quality of the work delivered.

[sokoloff]

This very much resonates with me and I find it ridiculously frustrating about myself. I can more easily deliver well-received work at the last minute than I can a steady pace of work that would be sometimes higher quality because of the opportunity to put it down for a few days and then review and improve at a more leisurely pace.

But the procrastination monkey inside skips most of the chances to do the latter.

Ironically, not having a deadline at all has given me a chance to deliver some of my best work (or work I’m most proud of), but I can also understand why a world with no time commitments wouldn’t actually work globally better.