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one way to mimic the successes of these people is to do what they do Disagree. Thinking like that is a common logical fallacy. Suppose you find a relation "isHacker?" "schedule type". Then you have NO evidence at all that that these are related since your whole sample are hackers. Also you don't know anything about the causality. Even if there is some relation (which I doubt) probably there are some other reasons and…
6:00 am: Rise from bed. 6:15 - 6:30: Dumbbell exercise and wall-scaling. 7:15 - 8:15: Study electricity, etc. 8:30 - 4:30: Work. 4:30 - 5:00: Baseball and sports. 5:00 - 6:00: Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it. 7:00 - 9:00: Study needed inventions.
I'm pretty sure this is from The Great Gatsby -- I remember the dumbbell part. Am I right?
One thing that surprised me is that most hackers here work out physically regularly. I do as well, and I also find post-workout protein drinks are essential. I tried not using them for 2 weeks and found the lack of them rendered my workouts totally meaningless (I track weight and body fat, another good thing to do).
Repeat.
wake up at 7.30AM, check email/twitter. shower, exfoliate, moisturise, floss, brush teeth, mouth wash, hair product, get dressed by 7.45 drive to work (its important to listen to music at this time), arrive at 8.00 breakfast (fruit + croissants + green tea) ~ 9.00 work, lunch for ~45 mins at 12 finish work at 19.00 home by 19.15, snack at 21.30, work/read/music/video games till 1.30, exercise & stretch, sleep by 01.3…
05:40: Wake Up
05:45 - 06:00: Shower, eat a granola bar, and brush teeth
06:00 - 06:05: Make Lunch
06:05 - 08:30: Take bus to commute to work, attempt to sleep on, take subway to office
08:30 - 12:30: Work (@ startup)
12:30 - 13:15: Lunch
13:15 - 17:50: Work (@ startup)
17:50 - 20:00: Commute home on bus, while reading
20:00 - 20:10: Supper
20:10 - 22:00: Read Hacker News, Techcrunch, check e-mail
22:00 - 00:30: Watch TV (Seinfeld & Daily Show), fall asleep on the floor
00:30 - 00:31: Wake up and collapse into bed
wake up at 7.30AM, check email/twitter. shower, exfoliate, moisturise, floss, brush teeth, mouth wash, hair product, get dressed by 7.45 drive to work (its important to listen to music at this time), arrive at 8.00 breakfast (fruit + croissants + green tea) ~ 9.00 work, lunch for ~45 mins at 12 finish work at 19.00 home by 19.15, snack at 21.30, work/read/music/video games till 1.30, exercise & stretch, sleep by 01.3…
Note: You are awesome if you catch the reference.