[kiba]

"within the globalist neoliberal paradigm, sleeping is for losers" This breaks my heart so much. Sleeping, the thing I'm not able to do very well in the first place, is one of the most sacred activities I can engage in. The last thing I need is to make it shorter (albeit allegedly more efficient).

I thought the conventional wisdom on Hacker News is that you should sleep well, exercise, eat right, and have a good balance of activities, even if you are a startup founder.

[potatolicious]

This isn't limited to HN, but I feel like the startup scene is somewhat of a "do as I say, not as I do" phenomenon. People will nod in enthusiastic agreement about the need to work sustainably, be balanced, eat well, sleep enough, etc.

And then pull an all nighter filled with Monster and Red Bull.

There's a bit of a dissonance in the community. On the one hand we agree with all of this talk about balance, on the other hand the culture is still very much an overgrown frathouse. We're touting the merits of working smarter while at the same time playing up the "code through the night!" hackathons.

We'll find our way out of it eventually.

[francoisdevlin]

Take a moment to compare this with the age distribution of HN, and you'll start to put it all together.

[jmduke]

That should be the conventional wisdom everywhere.

I would say, on average, programmers are worse at these things. Free food & booze and a job that makes it easy to work wherever, whenever certainly doesn't help.