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Re: Why Entrepreneurs Can't Sleep

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Post by herf »

achompas wrote: post #5

You'll see links to F.lux [0] occasionally on HN, but I can't overstate how F.lux has changed my life. Before F.lux, my laptop would suck me in. I would browse HN, Metafilter, and Twitter even as my eyes stung and my head felt like a bag of sand. Eventually I would go to bed at 3am, confused about how time flew by so quickly. The next morning was always rough. Some days I would wake up at 8am and arrive at work on ti…

This is really better than any donation. :)

Re: Why Entrepreneurs Can't Sleep

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Post by mikeleeorg »

I've always been a night owl (fortunately, not DSPS) with my most productive hours and highest energy late into the evening. This usually led me to wake up late too, as you'd expect.

In the last few months, however, I've found myself waking up early too - because I am so excited about what I am working on. Sometimes, I'll try to sleep in. All that leads me to do is just lie there, thinking about all the stuff I could be doing instead.

What I perhaps ought to do is take a siesta in the afternoon to balance out this lack of sleep. I haven't done that yet though...

Re: Why Entrepreneurs Can't Sleep

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Post by FrojoS »

achompas wrote: post #5

You'll see links to F.lux [0] occasionally on HN, but I can't overstate how F.lux has changed my life. Before F.lux, my laptop would suck me in. I would browse HN, Metafilter, and Twitter even as my eyes stung and my head felt like a bag of sand. Eventually I would go to bed at 3am, confused about how time flew by so quickly. The next morning was always rough. Some days I would wake up at 8am and arrive at work on ti…

Can't overstate this. For some reason Flux got deactivated on my computer. I just found out. The last nights my sleep shift has shifted and shifted. Until 6am bed time. Go figure.

For mornings, esp. in winter, I use a day light lamp [1]. Highly recommended.

[1] http://www.philips.co.uk/c/light-therapy/golite-blu-recharge...

Re: Why Entrepreneurs Can't Sleep

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Post by gte910h »

Most entrepreneurs have horrible sleep hygiene is why most of them can't sleep.

That doesn't mean you should shift over to waking up at 6am or anything, but it is something learnable, just like shaving or keeping a child clean.

Here is a link of getting your sleep hygiene under control I wrote a bit back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2453370

Re: Why Entrepreneurs Can't Sleep

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Post by watmough »

When I was working a full-time job, I found I could be super productive between 7am and 9am before most other people got in, then I wouldn't really get a huge amount done beyond supervisory and mentoring type work until 8pm or so when I could restart working.

Currently, on my own stuff, I work about 11pm to 3 or 4am which has been super productive but somewhat tiring. The huge benefit is almost complete peace and quiet, which really helps me focus.

Re: Why Entrepreneurs Can't Sleep

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Post by patio11 »

herf wrote: post #11
achompas wrote: post #5

You'll see links to F.lux [0] occasionally on HN, but I can't overstate how F.lux has changed my life. Before F.lux, my laptop would suck me in. I would browse HN, Metafilter, and Twitter even as my eyes stung and my head felt like a bag of sand. Eventually I would go to bed at 3am, confused about how time flew by so quickly. The next morning was always rough. Some days I would wake up at 8am and arrive at work on ti…

This is really better than any donation. :)

+1 for "changed my life." Seriously, but for f.lux I would probably have sought medical treatment for persistent insomnia. (And when I swapped laptops recently and stupidly put off installation I had two months of Zomg Schedule Hell before remembering "Oh yeah, this acharacteristic inability to sleep is exactly like life before flux".)

Re: Why Entrepreneurs Can't Sleep

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Post by littlegiantcap »

Interestingly enough my Uncle is the same way. He is an entrepreneur although, his business has absolutely nothing to do with the tech industry, so it's not a problem unique to hackers, but to startups. Along with my own experience, my startup is in tech field, of trying to get a startup up and running I would have to say number 4 is probably, at least in my and my uncle's case, the most probable cause of insomnia. The later it gets the less texts I get, the less emails to answer, my friends are all asleep, and I feel like I can finally get some work done.

Re: Why Entrepreneurs Can't Sleep

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Post by achompas »

herf wrote: post #11
achompas wrote: post #5

You'll see links to F.lux [0] occasionally on HN, but I can't overstate how F.lux has changed my life. Before F.lux, my laptop would suck me in. I would browse HN, Metafilter, and Twitter even as my eyes stung and my head felt like a bag of sand. Eventually I would go to bed at 3am, confused about how time flew by so quickly. The next morning was always rough. Some days I would wake up at 8am and arrive at work on ti…

This is really better than any donation. :)

Thanks so much to both you and @lorna. :)
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