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

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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!

Could you tie this to responsibility? Like "Every day I wake up and you didn't do anything dangerous or naughty, the green light will come on sooner." Just that a life stuck waiting for the light to come on would kind of suck. I guess if you make their rooms fun...

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

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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…

Are you only eating one meal a day or is there snacking intermittently throughout this routine?

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

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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 wi…

Don't you get tired after work to go to studies straight away? And no exercise?

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

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Big fan of meditation and fasting, but my other routines as well include: Pre-planning what I will eat for an entire week so I don't have to think about it daily Daily exercise stretch with the routine pre planned. I love pre planning a routine on a weekly basis that I feel will maximize my time, and I love the feeling of nailing that routine

I wan't to try fasting, what material do you recommend to get into it?

The Complete guide to fasting is by far the best book I've read on the subject:

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Fasting-Intermittent-A...

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

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My basic Tokyo routine as a lead programmer role in a big mobile game in Japan.

I wake up around 6:30 eat breakfast. Leave around 7:15 Take train at 7:30 (crowded train, reading Hacker News, tech news, game news and study Japanese) Arrive around 8:30 at work, and I make a coffee. Don’t start work just yet so I watch Collider Movies news. 9:00 start work (prepare for meetings, light programming or planning new layout for new event or features) 10:10 we have System morning meeting. (Today’s task announcement, other relative news for today or shared meeting announcement) 10:30 Team morning meeting (Announcement from planners about progress of new event layouts, basic sales announcement for yesterday and other announcement regarding the project) 10:40 work starts again (work from now on also consist of answering junior developers questions and problems when called upon, also checking progress of what all programmers are doing) 13:30 Lunch for an hour 14:30 return to work 18:00 Work finished 18:10 Take train home (Study Japanese or programming) 19:00 Spend time with family and newborn 23:00 Time for myself 24:00 Go to bed

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

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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.

Agreed. Our girls are turning 5 soon and they eat breakfast, cleanup, and dress themselves in the morning. It's a big help.

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

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For last few months I have been able to come up with sort of a Morning routine which is: - Making bed - Drink a glass of water - Mindful Teeth brushing. - Prayers and Reciting one page of Quran with explanation. - Cardio on Airwalk and a couple of dumbbell based workouts. - Breathing - Meditation - Journaling I use Trello for Month/Week/Day tasks. I also do night journaling where I reflect my thoughts of things happe…

What is Mindful Teeth brushing?

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

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My schedule is derived from my priorities.

Health - if I'm not healthy, I'm no good to anyone.

Family/Friends - wife first, children second, friends third.

Career/Work/Finances.

Wake up at around 5 every morning.

I wake up around 4:30 - 5 most mornings. That's the time my wife wakes up

As the dev lead, I have to juggle being in the office and interacting with the rest of the team and other departments with actual development. I work from home on Tuesdays and Thursday's.

My wife leaves home at 5:00 and my son wakes up at 6:30. That's the prime time for me to have uninterrupted quiet time.

Monday,Wednesday,Friday

5:00 - 6:30, study, go through my RSS feed, maybe spend some time working on proof of concepts that aren't job related to learn a new technology.

6:30 make sure my son is up, get ready for work.

7:15 - 8:30. Commute to work, listen to podcasts.

8:30 - 6:00 Work

6:00 - 7:15 Commute, call my wife, listen to podcasts.

7:15 - 9:00. Spend time with my wife and son (if he feels like it - typical teenager)

9:00 sleep

Tuesday/Thursday

5:00 - 6:30, study, go through my RSS feed, maybe spend some time working on proof of concepts that aren't job related to learn a new technology.

6:30 - 5:00 Work

5:00 - 6:30 Workout and catch up on TV, watch a PluralSight course, or listen to a podcast. We converted a bedroom to a home gym with weights, a treadmill and an elliptical.

My wife has outside hobbies including going to a fitness classes that are usually on these days. So if I want to work, study, or workout longer these days. I can - especially with no commute.

Saturday/Sunday

No set schedule, but I do workout another 90 minutes both days and might study some depending on what's going on with the family. But after working out, family first.

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