Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem • Hacker News Board

Re: Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem

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Post by sebringj » Sun, Sep 02, 2018, 6:15 PM UTC

InclinedPlane wrote: post #111

sebringj wrote: post #31

I've noticed if you are passionate about something, you don't track time, you don't care about your surroundings and lose yourself in what you are doing. That's when productivity happens and it doesn't respect sunlight always. However, it is easier on most human beings to have a circadian rhythm aligned with sunlight and workout first thing in the morning to jump start the day. It is more sustainable in the long run…

Or... this could be ADHD hyperfocus or bipolar II hypomania. Not everyone is the same, and not everyone experiences periods of just losing themselves in their work completely without any knowledge of time passing.

Where did "time flies when your having fun" come from? Time seems to move faster when you are actively doing something that envelopes your faculties, even if it has something to do with tracking time, like completing a complicated algorithm with a limited time to do it. Maybe you don't like general statements even if they are not implied to cover all cases?

Re: Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem

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Post by rootusrootus » Mon, Sep 03, 2018, 5:04 PM UTC

hinkley wrote: post #139

rootusrootus wrote: post #65

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You sound like the guy at my office who gives me shit for leaving at 2:30PM. Maybe to him my exasperation sounds like self-righteousness. I never can tell why some people are so interested in my sleep schedule.

You are never gonna make leaving at 2:30 work, mate. There are too many mid afternoon fire drills and you walking out the door while people are trying to solve really bad problems is never going to fly. You are also going to be constantly having people trying to talk you into committing code after 2:00 (a perfectly reasonable time) but then getting pissed because you broke the build and went home. Have people started…

Very situational. I've been making 2:00-2:30PM work for 25 years. Maybe it's different in shops primarily filled with young people who show up late, work late, and have a philosophy of move-fast-and-break-things.

Re: Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem

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Post by LifeQuestioner » Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 8:50 AM UTC

collyw wrote: post #157

LifeQuestioner wrote: post #54

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I really wish I could sleep by 2am. It would make life possible. My natural sleep pattern is 5am-12. I've literally spent the last decade trying to solve it. Until, I gave up.

Does this change at all when the clocks go back / forward? How long does it take you to adjust then? In my opinion the 2am is just a conceptual thing and there is nothing concrete about it - we change it twice a year and most people adjust fairly quickly.

my mind says conceptual thing, my body does not