9:30 asleep, 5:30 wake, get coffee, scroll phone, 5:55 out the door to exercise - run or group fitness class, 7:10 breakfast, shower, 7:30 ET zoom standup with Europe, work until 5:30 (tech founder), dinner with wife, evenings are free, 8:30 bed routine, 9:30 asleep. on gym off days i work the extra 90 minutes. weekends are about the same with personal trainer 7am sunday. There’s plenty of room for kids - work a bit less and evenings are already free - but wife didn’t want em.
Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very off-topic here, but no, money is not the key when trying to find a spot on this planet that nobody does have on their radar when it comes to fucking up the planet on short notice :) Also: Different people, different coping strategies. I don't want to wait until the "Active Shooter!" cell broadcast message finds its way to my phone. :) For some people, potentially especially those on the spectrum, having as much…
I'm also on team Keep An Eye On Things™, and approximately none of it really feeds into an anxiety loop. (There's a tiny sliver of the pie that does, but it's easy enough to talk myself off that ledge and go engage in a Weltschmerzspaziergang[0].) I know it's stuff I can't control, and that's sort of the point. I want to know what I can't control so that I can know what I can control, if that makes sense. 0: Otherwis…
Spot on.
Closely tracking things you can not control may provide a sense of control to some.
Or the other way round: Crunching enough data and building reasonable predictions based on that takes away the element of surprise, and the element of surprise for some translates to anxiety.
For me the only things that scare me are in the "I have no data on that" category.
Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm also on team Keep An Eye On Things™, and approximately none of it really feeds into an anxiety loop. (There's a tiny sliver of the pie that does, but it's easy enough to talk myself off that ledge and go engage in a Weltschmerzspaziergang[0].) I know it's stuff I can't control, and that's sort of the point. I want to know what I can't control so that I can know what I can control, if that makes sense. 0: Otherwis…
Spot on. Closely tracking things you can not control may provide a sense of control to some. Or the other way round: Crunching enough data and building reasonable predictions based on that takes away the element of surprise, and the element of surprise for some translates to anxiety. For me the only things that scare me are in the "I have no data on that" category.
It's all part of the actuarial mindset. The entire point of the exercise is to arrive at a model of reality that has some degree of predictive power.
> For me the only things that scare me are in the "I have no data on that" category.
I feel exactly the same way. It means that I have no idea what those things will wind up costing me, and that's the anxiety trigger as far as I'm concerned.
Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?
#134Wake up when my wife does at 7:30 and have a quick pee so I don't have to interrupt her morning bathroom routine.
Return to bed, sleep until 9. Coffee, brain pills, anti-SAD light visor in winter, a little food if my digestion is online, loud wakey-wakey music.
Open the laptop and start looking around Slack about 9:30, standup at 10, then my schedule is largely up to me: my work is good about minimizing the impact of meetings, probably better than anyplace else I've worked.
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#135Wake up whenever, wait until I hear the coffee machine or on a good day trigger it myself. Then I do whatever my phone has on open tasks, usually nothing or a random bill or a customer asking something. Second coffee, maybe a joint. Then actively just enjoying my coffee joint on repeat until I get the urge to do something. Which might not even happen that day. Sounds ineffective, but I tried a lot and productivity is…
Do you have a job?
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#136No morning wood/erection references in all these comments?
Why is that? Privacy oriented shy hackers or real absence of it?
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#137As a Person with ADHD: - first thing i do is drinking big glass of water - doing Sun Salutation yoga sequence, either 1 time or N times -as long as i am willing to do that day- - spend first 15 minutes of working hour with coffee and writing a short todo for that day into paper. I cannot emphasise enough how doing mindful exercises -even 1 minute!- regularly in the morning helps with my ADHD. But here is my ADHD trap…
Replace the glass of water with cold milk. You'll thank me later.
From the toilet?
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#138Wake up, have a wank, shower and go to work. Get to work, faff for 30mins buying coffee and cookie and then eat. Simple enough routine.
Spotted the Brit!
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#139Wake up ~5:30am. Get dressed, brush my teeth, and make a black breakfast tea. go for a 20 minute walk. Change into workout clothes, workout til ~6:30am (I have a full garage gym -- strength is Mon, Weds, Fri, and conditioning is Tues, Thurs, and Sat). Shower, morning face and hair routine, get dressed, get my wife and kids stirred and moving. Get downstairs, get breakfast started, pack lunches, out of the house by 7:…
Do not forget mobility.
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#140Always stand up at 07:00 am. Take supplements against my migrains with a good amount of tap water. Eat the same oatmeal with some cacao powder and oat milk just to get some food in my system. Then I do about 45 - 60 min of Japanese language reviews. At 08:00 I sit down in my work area and start working. No coffee/caffeine.
This is how 90% of my workdays go for the last 1.5 years :)