Maybe the best answers could be given by those who would not hang around Hacker News on a weekend.
Ask HN: How do you unwind at the end of a day?
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#62I know it sounds nuts, but I always found changing clothes made a huge difference for me. Get home and put on a pair of shorts, t-shirt and flip flops, or at least something you would never, ever wear to work. It always made some kind of mental shift in my head.
Same here. I also take my watch off. I like having one at work and when I'm out but at home I take it off immediately.
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#63Queue up a handful (maybe an hour or two) of YouTube videos from my subscription box. Not that it's all that different from the typical "flop on couch and veg in from of the boobtube until you pass out" but if you have a diverse subbox you almost never run out of stimulating, fresh content that does more for you than typical Netflix-style content would. Here are some of my favourites: - AvE: https://www.youtube.com/c…
Ooooh, these are nice. Here are mine: Extra History: stories of historical incidents — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbBHk_zLTmY&list=PLhyKYa0YJ_... Real Engineering: mostly materials science — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niVguabIhTs&t=33s - Wendover Productions — mostly transportation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlIdzF1_b5M Tom Scott: a bit of everything — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdmQp9M9jUo - Ja…
Extra History and Jay Foreman are new to me. Thank you!
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I do heroin If that was a joke, it is in very poor taste. If that was not a joke, I hope you get help.
It's amazing that you're being downvoted. Heroin takes many lives daily and for someone to nonchalantly act like it's no bigger deal than having a beer is as naive as I could possibly ever imagine anyone to be. Edit: I guess as a disclaimer, seeing as I'm being downvoted too, I should mention I was addicted to opiates for many years
you overcame an actual heroin addiction but can't deal with people joking about it on the internet?
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#65Re: Ask HN: How do you unwind at the end of a day?
#66I know it sounds nuts, but I always found changing clothes made a huge difference for me. Get home and put on a pair of shorts, t-shirt and flip flops, or at least something you would never, ever wear to work. It always made some kind of mental shift in my head.
For those of us who live alone, the process definitely stops at taking off work clothes
Count one childless adult couple in with this being standard.
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#67I just bought an Ableton Push. I plan on cracking open a beer and learning to use it after work. I figure if I'm going to entertain myself I might as well be learning too. I find making music to be both engaging and relaxing.
I find that making music (especially on a computer) is very similar to writing software in that they require both hemispheres of your brain. I love the state of flow that you get into when you're deep in a project.
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#68I always have a hard time going to sleep at a consistent time; it's much easier for me to stay up a couple of hours later than it is to go to bed even a half hour earlier. The two easiest ways for me to lose track of time and end up amped up at bedtime are programming and gaming, so I set an alarm 2 hours before bedtime to remind myself to stop either of those activities for the night. Then I veg out watching somethi…
I have the same issue if I'm working a "normal" person's day, but not so much if I can wake later in the day (10-noon).
The poster mentioning the tea was on track - it doesn't have to be tea, just get a routine at night, starting half an hour or something before bed. It can be showering or whatever, just something relaxing. Boring television shows - nothing that gets you too interested - after that until you sleep. Or reading or whatever, so long as it doesn't engross you.
Also helpful is to keep some sleep hygeine - not sleeping in much on weekends. It sucks doing this, but it does produce results.
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#70I know it sounds nuts, but I always found changing clothes made a huge difference for me. Get home and put on a pair of shorts, t-shirt and flip flops, or at least something you would never, ever wear to work. It always made some kind of mental shift in my head.
Here is my crazy idea that I want YC to fund: a Sock Printer. I want to come home and have a brand new pair of socks printed (woven) for me by a bot... I looked around on the internet for "sock machine" and its derivatives - but the best I could find was one machine that was super industrial. Nothing feels better than the first time you put on a brand new pair of socks. SockPrinter.com!
Could you not just buy a months supply of new socks in advance? Seems like it would be cheaper. Also as a first adopter you'd have socks made from hard plastic resin. It would bring new meaning to the term bleeding edge