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Slow Mornings May Be a Secret to Tech-Life Balance
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Re: Slow Mornings May Be a Secret to Tech-Life Balance
#22Interesting.
A couple of decades ago, I developed a habit of waking up early enough that I don't have to do anything at all for at least the first hour of my waking day.
This was accidental at first, but it improved my life so much that I never stopped doing it. It never occurred to me that this was anything other than a personal quirk.
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#23So it seems the "secret" to tech-life balance is choosing more life than tech? Don't get me wrong, I'm all about tech-life balance and work-life balance (which this article and the problem in general heavily overlaps with), but the secret is conciously organizing your life to have more life than tech. Part of this is finding a job that allows you to choose life outside of office hours. Having more free mornings to do…
Do these types of jobs even exist anymore in tech? At least in SV, every job I've come across these days seem to require on-call and an implicit requirement to work into the night hours in order to finish your work. Not to mention super competitive teammates that don't mind working 24/7 and putting pressure on me to work even longer. I would gladly take a minimum 25% pay reduction if it meant I only needed to work 9-…
> Do these types of jobs even exist anymore in tech?
Yes, they do (although maybe not in SV). They're not even rare! I'm working at one right now -- and, honestly, that's how it's been at nearly every tech job I've had over my career.
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#24I'm struck by a couple of things, Getting up at 4.30am seems excessive and presumably requires going to bed at 8-9pm I can't imagine doing this with a child
What time do you think little children go to bed?
Children tend to be solar powered. Getting them to bed before 10pm in mid summer nights can be a real challenge in northern latitudes.
Black out curtains really help. But starting the bedtime routine when the sun is out is a real chore. I honestly have no idea how Alaskans get their kids to sleep at all in the summer.
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#25I think it depends a lot on what you do with your phone/laptop in the morning. If the first thing you do is hop on email or social media, then yes, I can see how that could be psychologically draining.
But if you start with news(ish) type things, that's just another way of "reading the morning paper". I personally start by checking HN and Reddit, and then curated news like the Associated Press app.
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#26I'm struck by a couple of things, Getting up at 4.30am seems excessive and presumably requires going to bed at 8-9pm I can't imagine doing this with a child
I can't imagine ever going to bed unless it's completely dark outside.
I did grow up in the northern latitudes somewhat, so going to bed before 11pm in the summer would be ridiculous. We were out playing with friends until 9-10pm, easily.
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#27As someone whose default ringer setting is off unless I'm expecting a call, and have been like that for almost a decade, giving fewer people a guaranteed option on my time is a great start to being able to build and choose with calm, higher quality decisions. We get what we reward. When you don't set boundaries, you can't expect other people to anticipate them, let alone respect the ones you have in effect imagined.…
> When we worry about missing opportunities
Becoming an entrepreneur cured me of this worry, because I realized that there is no shortage of opportunities -- they're all around us all the time, the trick is in noticing the ones that can be of value to you.
Since they're common, there's no problem with missing one. Another one is right around the corner.
This also helped me avoid some really bad business decisions.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
What time do you think little children go to bed?
Children tend to be solar powered. Getting them to bed before 10pm in mid summer nights can be a real challenge in northern latitudes. Black out curtains really help. But starting the bedtime routine when the sun is out is a real chore. I honestly have no idea how Alaskans get their kids to sleep at all in the summer.
Blackout curtains definitely help here in Seattle, I grew up in the UK where it's even worse.
The other thing that helps is consistency and bedtime rituals, that being said I'm glad that as school starts the nights are already noticably longer and we'll soon be able to watch the sunset and be in bed on time
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#29I'm struck by a couple of things, Getting up at 4.30am seems excessive and presumably requires going to bed at 8-9pm I can't imagine doing this with a child
My kids go to bed at 6pm.
What age are they? My 10yr old daughter is at soccer practice at 6pm... My 7yr old is reading books until about 8pm.
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#30Medium server went down to help up improve our tech-life balance.