[jtuple]

The "hacker" stereotype is certainly stale, but subbing "young person" (and implying not "old person") is equally silly.

I'm 41 and have been awake before 7am maybe 20 times in the past 10 years. Half the reason I still put up with computers is because it's one of the few professions where I can work a 11-7pm schedule most days and still excel.

There are morning people and night people. You are what you are, no judgements, but it isn't something you grow in/out of, nor should be expected to.

[lapcat]

> There are morning people and night people. You are what you are, no judgements, but it isn't something you grow in/out of, nor should be expected to.

Oh, my sweet summer child.

Talk to me again in another decade or so.

[naruhodo]

I'm in my mid fifties. I rarely start work before 2pm. My colleagues regularly receive emails from me sent after 1am.

Are you saying I will grow out of this and become a lark? Or are you saying I will eventually conform, oh wise one?

[lapcat]

I'm saying that changing sleep patterns and waking up earlier is a very common effect of aging.

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/aging-and-sleep/why-do-older...

YMMV but the idea that you can't grow in/out of sleep patterns is empirically false, and I know this from personal experience.

For most of my life, I didn't need glasses for reading... until I suddenly did. Bodies change.

[naruhodo]

I knew most of the stuff in that article. If I wake up at 5am on full alert, mind racing, I read for a couple of hours and then go back to sleep when it's possible. I know that I can't function well on less than 7 hours, so I don't try.

The article seems to be taking about people on the verge of entering "the facility", on their slow slide into dementia, who are making do despite not getting enough sleep. I'll get back to you when I hit 70.

[lapcat]

> The article seems to be taking about people on the verge of entering "the facility", on their slow slide into dementia

I don't know how in the world you got that from the article, but no.