has anyone been able to work more than 40hrs/week and still healthy with bio-hacking?
Ask HN: How to hack myself to increase my work hour?
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Re: Ask HN: How to hack myself to increase my work hour?
#2I don't work a lot. But have more energy. And you can use the energy for whatever you want I guess ?
Have you fixed food ? Only eat best food for your body (no meat, alot of vegs, fish, chicken) + supplements (fish oil etc).
Don't drink coffee and only use it for special occasions (to push more hours).
Exercise: swim for overall body health + running to fix bugs in your head and get high/relaxed (8-10km).
Quit drugs legal & illegal (or only on weekend).
Fix sleep.
Re: Ask HN: How to hack myself to increase my work hour?
#3I don't work a lot. But have more energy. And you can use the energy for whatever you want I guess ? Have you fixed food ? Only eat best food for your body (no meat, alot of vegs, fish, chicken) + supplements (fish oil etc). Don't drink coffee and only use it for special occasions (to push more hours). Exercise: swim for overall body health + running to fix bugs in your head and get high/relaxed (8-10km). Quit drugs…
How is eating no meat healthy?
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Re: Ask HN: How to hack myself to increase my work hour?
#5I don't work a lot. But have more energy. And you can use the energy for whatever you want I guess ? Have you fixed food ? Only eat best food for your body (no meat, alot of vegs, fish, chicken) + supplements (fish oil etc). Don't drink coffee and only use it for special occasions (to push more hours). Exercise: swim for overall body health + running to fix bugs in your head and get high/relaxed (8-10km). Quit drugs…
How is eating no meat healthy?
It is for me. My stomach doesn't like it, I actually enjoy it a lot :(. I do eat fish,chicken.
Re: Ask HN: How to hack myself to increase my work hour?
#6The first hack is to only work 20hrs/week. If you are convinced that you only have half of the time to do the same amount of work you will stop wasting time, and ruthlessly prioritize.
The second hack is to be able to maintain that work ethic/productivity for as long as you want: 40hrs, 50hrs, etc.
Re: Ask HN: How to hack myself to increase my work hour?
#7I don't work a lot. But have more energy. And you can use the energy for whatever you want I guess ? Have you fixed food ? Only eat best food for your body (no meat, alot of vegs, fish, chicken) + supplements (fish oil etc). Don't drink coffee and only use it for special occasions (to push more hours). Exercise: swim for overall body health + running to fix bugs in your head and get high/relaxed (8-10km). Quit drugs…
How is eating no meat healthy?
It is very possible to be a healthy meat eater but in general vegetarians have lower incidences of common ailments that decrease lifespan in western populations like cancer and heart disease.
Here's a relevant meta-analysis: https://www.karger.com/article/fulltext/337301
Re: Ask HN: How to hack myself to increase my work hour?
#8The first hack is to only work 20hrs/week. If you are convinced that you only have half of the time to do the same amount of work you will stop wasting time, and ruthlessly prioritize. The second hack is to be able to maintain that work ethic/productivity for as long as you want: 40hrs, 50hrs, etc.
Good hack, as long as you are paid by performance and not by arse-chair contact time.
Re: Ask HN: How to hack myself to increase my work hour?
#9Working long hours has the following problems IMO that need to be addressed:
1. If sitting it is bad for your posture, back etc. Lack of exercise could be an issue.
2. If thinking hard it might cause fatigue in the mind, burnout etc.
3. If working in a stressful environment, e.g. working with dicks then longer exposure to this could cause psychological problems.
A good hack would be to do a job where you can stand / walk for at least some of the time.
E.g. a job where you do some stuff on a whiteboard, or present a lot in front of people, or can pace around and think would help.
A job where you don't work with dicks would help.
A job where you are not doing novel stuff all the time or working on complex code bases or issues all the time would help.
So my hacks are in the choice of job where you work the long hours, rather than along the lines of drinking soylent etc.
HOWEVER
Why do you desire to work long hours? This seems odd to me.
If it is just to get better results, then just aim for better results. If you run your own business this might entail setting up systems that take you out of the picture.
Re: Ask HN: How to hack myself to increase my work hour?
#10I don't work a lot. But have more energy. And you can use the energy for whatever you want I guess ? Have you fixed food ? Only eat best food for your body (no meat, alot of vegs, fish, chicken) + supplements (fish oil etc). Don't drink coffee and only use it for special occasions (to push more hours). Exercise: swim for overall body health + running to fix bugs in your head and get high/relaxed (8-10km). Quit drugs…
How is eating no meat healthy?
And how is chicken not meat ?