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Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?

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A couple of reasons for it. I was wasting my time in evenings on useless stuff and was mentally drained to do any productive work. I need to change the type of industry I work in, so I feel the solid block of time in the morning with a fresh mind is the best time to learn new skills. Also, I am single and got divorced last year. I found myself wasting time, contemplating mundane things, reading psychology forums in e…

Really interesting. I find I'm most productive in the evenings. Do you happen to agree with the research suggesting people have natural inclinations towards more/less sleep and different productivity rhythms during the day? It seems like reading between the lines you've augmented your sleep patterns from what they normally are.

I think the sleep and productivity times vary with age, food, and stress levels. I used to be a late nighter almost all of my teen life into the early 20s. But have now become early(rather super early) riser.

As expected light plays a huge role in altering sleep cycles. All my devices go into blue light mode around 5:30 pm, and same with Hue lights at home. And the lights turn on to 6500K ~30 mins before my alarm goes off. If for some reason my lights do no turn on I still find in hard to wake-up at 2 just with an alarm.

As for food, I've noticed on days my diet is heavy in red meat, and fats I tend to sleep longer.

Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?

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Yeah, it doesn't matter how good your headphones are when some asshole sneaks up behind you and taps you on the shoulder to ask you some inane question that he could have sent in an email.

Sometimes I wonder if it's assholeness or just complete inability to read nonverbal cues.

> complete inability to read nonverbal cues

Isn't that the default in software departments/companies? However, usually that is considered an "asshole" by the general population, despite actually being a good reason for not reacting to nonverbal communication.

Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?

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Profession: Marketing

Position: Sr. Digital Marketing Analyst at http://www.spaceotechnologies.com/ a mobile app development company in India.

Workday: -Wake up, breakfast, swimming

At Office [9:30 to 10:00] Planning the day

[10:00 to 11:00] Checking social media channels, checking latest app related news using Google trends, and redditing.

[11:00 to 1:45] Trying to automize my work, checking on-page of our website, technical discussion of GA.

[1:45 to 2:30] Lunch, reading

[2:30 to 6:30] Working on special assignments and updating the daily reports to track the work progress

Well, apart from this, we have sometimes different activities which I like the most.

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