usually wake around 8:00. breakfast in bed with partner. shower, stagger in to office. Take morning ritalin. check morning cartoons (xkcd smbc, frazz), read HN (18 minutes noprocrast). Check sites for jobs (_still_ no Python contracts. It's been nearly a year). Start work on whatever little job there is, or on my never ending side project. snack more than I should. Eat a couple of apples. Wish there were some interesting paid work in the offing, or even some interesting lighting work (the live music scene here is almost as dead as the Python contract market). Try to understand the next new bit of technology for the side project: currently how to write a mobile app and how to structure code for embedded ARM devices and port code from AVR to that.
Ask HN: What is your morning routine?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your morning routine?
#22- When I first open my eyes on the morning I usually get most of my intellectual work done from my bed. I call it half sleepy / half awake. This is when my brain is at %200. Sometimes I resolve yesterday's issues or get new ideas. It's amazing how fast and clear my brain is, right when I wake up. It only lasts for 5 minutes unfortunately. I try to take notes because everything disappears pretty quickly.
- Then I pull out my phone and check out my emails + news. It's usually 7am so the west coast is still sleeping.
- Then the food routine kicks off. Shower, breakfast, water, coffee then more water.
- Check out my emails again, it's about 8:30am. Now the day really starts.
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#23- Alarm 6am
- Grab my bag (prepared the night before) and cycle to the gym for 630
- Gym 630 -> 730
- Cycle to work for 815
- Drink loads of water and eat breakfast
- Shower and get to my desk for 9
- Work, read, and tick off things on my todo list until my colleagues arrive (anytime until 10am)
I find if I skip the gym I can be in a terrible mood. Seems like I don't even consider riding my bike exercise anymore, just transport!
Always in bed by 10-11pm.
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#24Alarm goes off at 6. I hit snooze 12 times until it's about 7. I half doze, half ruminate on why I can't just get out of bed at 6. The hour I steal from myself gives me immeasurable pleasure. Around 7 I make it down into the bathroom, where I check political news for about a half hour. I ruminate on how unhealthy my eating habits are. I take a shower, and get out of the house by 8. On the ride in, I try to use positi…
Become a writer.
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#25- Wake up at 430-5 (Used to use an alarm, now it is a natural thing. I am also asleep by 930pm and usually catch a couple of naps over the weekend). - Take my dog out, hit the restroom, have breakfast - Train on my bike for 1-1.5 hours - Try real hard to catch my bus at 735. I usually miss nowadays, So I hitch a ride with my wife at 845 to the bus stop. - reach by 915 or so. Coffee and coding. I try to get some codin…
Do you find going to bed at 930pm hurts your social life?
That is by far the largest thing keeping me from the "early to bed, early to rise" lifestyle. I like going out with people, or generally engaging with others at night.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you think experiences are limited to mid twenties? What kind of experiences are you talking about
Probably parties, concerts, impromptu weekend trips, paying to crawl through mud for five miles, side hustles, short term relationships, and the drama involved with any of those. That stuff tends to die way down for most people in their 30s.
Easy way to end ALL those: Get married have kids
Re: Ask HN: What is your morning routine?
#2707:00 - Philips Hue lights slowly turn on until bright at 07:10
07:10 - iPhone alarm goes off
07:12 - Bedside alarm goes off to make sure I actually got up
07:14 - Shave, long, hot shower
07:40 - Leave for work (either walk to the train station or drive), eat a Banana on the way
08:15 - Arrive at work, make a coffee and fill water bottle
08:20 - Team lead of a small ops / systems engineers, some management style work, lots of puppet coding, keeping an eye on monitoring and tickets, assist my team and developers with any peer review / issues / discussions
10:00 - Sometimes get a morning snack / coffee
12:00 - Lunch, avoid carbs and try to stick to high protein, low sugar foods when possible.
12:15 - Back to work any time between 12:15 and 13:00
Any time between 15:00 and 18:00 - leave work
Any time between 17:00 and 20:30 - Order dinner from UberEats, maybe have a wine or two
Most evenings - Catch up on comedy shows, read books
Some evenings - Perform out of hours scheduled work or finish things I was on a roll with remotely from home, go to gigs, catch up with friends over dinner etc...
Re: Ask HN: What is your morning routine?
#28Alarm 7:15. Snooze. Snooze. Snooze. Snooze. Make espresso, add some milk, drink in bed while reading Facebook. Resolve to quit Facebook and contact friends directly instead. Shower. Pack rucksack, get dressed. Cycle to work, between 15 and 45 minutes depending on location. Check emails and flag those I should action that day. Change out of cycling clothes. Do something productive, then duck out for coffee and buttered toast at 10:30am.
Re: Ask HN: What is your morning routine?
#2906:00 - Alarm (wife is up at 5:40)
06:05 - Coffee. Check email/slack/rollbar/etc for anything urgent.
06:15 - Local news for weather/traffic, HN and national/world news check.
06:30 - Shave, shower
06:55 - Eat breakfast with my wife.
07:10 - We leave for work and I drop my wife off at her office.
I listen to my daily podcasts in the car. My drive to the local office is 15 minutes so on those days I finish my podcasts at my desk. The head office is 1 hour away, so I can finish them all on the drive.
I try to finish all communication tasks and all error/task/planning triage at the start of the day. The rest of the day is for coding and whatever meetings I have to attend. I try to break my coding into 1-1.5 hour chunks so that meetings don't hurt my flow as much. My calendar is pretty free since we are a small team and try to respect each other's time.
Lunch time (other than time spent eating) is spent either in meetings or in meditation/on a walk.
Back home at 5:30 after picking my wife up and we fix and eat dinner together. We'll both do some work in the evenings if we need to, but not every night. Usually just enough to finish off what was in progress at the end of the day.
We are in bed by 9:00, reading until lights out at 10.
For me the set schedule helps me transition my mental mode between work and family times. And since we usually commute together, my wife and I are on the same schedule. It helps keep us from being in 2 different modes at the same time.
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#30Context: 27 y/o, fiance, no dependants
4:45 - alarm goes off, start getting ready
5:05 - go down to garage and prep bike
5:10 - meet those that I am riding with
5:15 to 7.15 - Ride and then coffee(s)
7:30 get home and shower and take already prepared bag
8:00 take train to work
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On the days where I do not ride it is essentially the same but replaced with gym.
Cycling changed my life; would not be the person I am today without it.