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Re: Ask HN: What are your daily (or weekly) routines?

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Post by bracobama »

I recently wrote out my morning routine as part of an exercise, it involves the following and takes about 45 min.

1. Wake, Toilet, 200 ml Water 2. Yoga (sun salutations x2) + listen to tech news podcast (10 min) 3. Water 200 ml, Brush Teeth, Quick Shower (8 min) 4. Get Dressed (10 min) 5. Water 200 ml 6. Journaling (5 min) 7. Look at Todo list & Calendar (5 min) 8. Start first work time block

In the evening, I have a shut down ritual that starts at about 9:30pm where I reset back to a neutral state:

1. Take computer back to desktop (close apps + use OneTab to save any tabbed chrome sessions I might need to reference again later) 2. Clear desk of unnecessary junk, put stuff back where it belongs. 3. Shower (Shampoo + Condition Hair, Wash Body + Face) 4. Light candle 5. Turn off bright lights 5. Meditate (15 - 30 min) 6. Extinguish candle 7. Go to bed

Re: Ask HN: What are your daily (or weekly) routines?

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Post by hn_reader_n »

ghewgill wrote: post #20
scandox wrote: post #13

6.30 Awoken by children Roil in Chaos 23.30 Fall into dreamless sleep At weekends I do not get a coffee break.

This. All the other comments are from people who clearly don't have kids.

I am parent with two girls. Starting from age of 5 I trained them to do almost all daily routes by themselves, I only cook food, and I have time for meditation, sport activities, hobbies, reading HN, etc. I believe it will help them to grow as much more organized persons.

Re: Ask HN: What are your daily (or weekly) routines?

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Post by codingdave »

ghewgill wrote: post #20
scandox wrote: post #13

6.30 Awoken by children Roil in Chaos 23.30 Fall into dreamless sleep At weekends I do not get a coffee break.

This. All the other comments are from people who clearly don't have kids.

Once your kids all go to school, they also have a schedule, and routines are quite feasible.

Re: Ask HN: What are your daily (or weekly) routines?

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Post by duncan-donuts »

goodJobWalrus wrote: post #28
scandox wrote: post #13

6.30 Awoken by children Roil in Chaos 23.30 Fall into dreamless sleep At weekends I do not get a coffee break.

Yes, like that. However, in the last couple of months, I managed to move my kid's schedule from waking up at 4:30 AM, to more humane 6-7. I am very proud of this achievement.

You should be. My kids went from 7am to consistently getting up at 5:30am. What I'd give to get them back to 7am.

Re: Ask HN: What are your daily (or weekly) routines?

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Post by rogy »

I try not to.. but trying not to have routine tends to end in a rather haphazard but repeatable pattern anyway.

Some days i wake up and go straight to work at ~7.30, at my desk for 8.10. Some days ill lie around watch tv and relax in the morning till 9 and get to desk ~9.45.

Meaning to use more of my ‘lazy’ mornings to go swimming but never end up doing it.

Leave work between 5 and 6. Cook for my partner who tends to work later. Watch TV till 10, sleep.

On paper, looks terrible now, need to do more with my time.

Re: Ask HN: What are your daily (or weekly) routines?

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Post by brailsafe »

This varies in order and quantity from day to day. I'd get bored if it didn't. Usually get in 6-9 hours of skateboarding a week while constrained by climate. Usually get around 6 - 8 hours of sleep.

  Wake up at around 06:30
  Shower, etc..
  Travel to the Uni
  Attend class
  1 hour misc. break of work or piano
  Attend class
  A few hours of either school work, dev work, barista work, or I'll have coffee with someone. Maybe piano in here too.
  Skateboarding for 1-3 hours
  Travel home and make some food, shower, sleep.

Re: Ask HN: What are your daily (or weekly) routines?

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Post by navbaker »

duncan-donuts wrote: post #34
goodJobWalrus wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, like that. However, in the last couple of months, I managed to move my kid's schedule from waking up at 4:30 AM, to more humane 6-7. I am very proud of this achievement.

You should be. My kids went from 7am to consistently getting up at 5:30am. What I'd give to get them back to 7am.

I plan on implementing a fix my friends discovered as soon as my two kids are old enough to be out of the cribs. They bought smartphone controlled lightbulbs for their kids’ rooms and told them they weren’t allowed to come out until the light changed from red to green. It worked like a charm!

Re: Ask HN: What are your daily (or weekly) routines?

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Post by throwaway713 »

Weekdays:

     5:30 AM -  6:30 AM - Wake up, get ready, drive to work
     6:30 AM -  3:00 PM - Work
     3:30 PM -  6:30 PM - Go to coffee shop, study for job interviews / work on side projects
     6:30 PM -  8:00 PM - Hang out with wife, kids, and eat dinner
     8:00 PM - 10:00 PM - Continue studying, then bedtime
Weekends:

     8:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Study for job interviews / work on side projects
    12:00 PM -  4:00 PM - Eat lunch and go for walk with wife
     4:00 PM -  7:00 PM - Study
     7:00 PM - 10:00 PM - Hang out with wife and kids
If you can't tell from the schedule, trying to advance my career takes up more time than the career itself...

Re: Ask HN: What are your daily (or weekly) routines?

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Post by drmpeg »

Here's my Silicon Valley routine. Wake up around 1 pm. with slight hangover. Put as much coffee beans into a Mr. Coffee grinder as I can and make a stiff cup of coffee with a 1 cup filter cone. Drink coffee and check the stock market. Take a dump, shave just the cheeks on my face, trim my neck beard, and shower.

Roll a joint with as much weed as I can fit into a single zig-zag paper. Leave for work right before rush hour and smoke out going down 237.

Get to work about 4 pm and have an espresso. Read E-mail until I come down a little. Get in the zone and write code until about 7 or 8 pm. Get some dinner at for example, La Milpa. Come back to work and do some testing. Leave about 12 midnight and stop at a dive bar for some beers.

Get home around 2 am, and watch Family Guy and American Dad reruns on Adult Swim until about 5 am. Repeat.

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