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> the producer of pretty much every contemporary pop singer you’ve heard of While his portfolio is no doubt impressive (including names such as Taylor Swift, Lana del Rey and Lorde), this is still a bit too much hyperbole for my taste...
This feels like an incredibly elaborate way to say that he's a morning person. There's plenty of people for whom the entire thing works the exact opposite, and of course loads of people everywhere in between. I wouldn't really read deep into this, it's one of those takes that tries really hard to sound profound, but it really isn't.
> This feels like an incredibly elaborate way to say that he's a morning person. If you read the whole article there’s a section dedicated to evening people. Regardless, the advice is about avoiding emotionally draining stimuli until you’ve accomplished what you want to do for the day. You can wake up at noon and still do that. The root problem is that people are consuming large amounts of negative news and social me…
That's not necessarily true. If you're a morning person managing other people that are not morning people but insist on having daily meetings in the morning, you're an asshole. I find meetings early in the morning sadistic and way more draining than reading the news, but I'm not the type that gets emotional about the news while I will react negatively in an early meeting at the drop of a pin. It's not about needing coffee nor did I get up on the wrong side of the bed or whatever demeaning quip you want to offer. I'm not up to speed until later in the day, and forcing me to pretend I am is just rude. This is the biggest downside to WFH where everyone can live in whatever timezone so someone's afternoon meeting is my morning rather than just scheduling the meeting where everyone is on the same schedule. It's one of the few things about working in an office I can appreciate. Definitely not to be misread as a vote for RTO.
This advice holds true for me. The days I don’t have anything bother me go well. The days that I do, don’t.
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Does the following part mean they're a morning person, or is it orthogonal? > “Every day is a new beginning. You wake up and at some point in the day, someone shoots up a school, or something’s going on with your family, or you wake up and eat the wrong thing. And then you’re done. Emotionally cooked. Literally and emotionally poisoned. > Every day I wake up and can get to the studio before something has shattered my…
Yeah it sounds like he's just terminally online. The whole idea here did not resonate with me at all. If I have serious work to do I isolate myself and do it until it's done or I'm out of steam. If the day "poisons" me that means I should have been more disciplined - the correct answer to consuming news media, for instance, is always to consume less of it. If someone is consistently poisoning my day the answer is to…
Or maybe online minimalism. The "digital" is kind of orthogonal.
This feels like an incredibly elaborate way to say that he's a morning person. There's plenty of people for whom the entire thing works the exact opposite, and of course loads of people everywhere in between. I wouldn't really read deep into this, it's one of those takes that tries really hard to sound profound, but it really isn't.
> This feels like an incredibly elaborate way to say that he's a morning person. If you read the whole article there’s a section dedicated to evening people. Regardless, the advice is about avoiding emotionally draining stimuli until you’ve accomplished what you want to do for the day. You can wake up at noon and still do that. The root problem is that people are consuming large amounts of negative news and social me…
It's a perfunctory mention of the exact kind morning people commonly throw out to superficially address an evening person's actual constraints.
The article's whole thesis is that after some point in the day your emotions will end up fried. An evening person can't simply flip the arrow of time to make it so that before that point in the day, their emotions have started off fried but then get unfried afterwards. Rather completely different approaches are needed.
The most important part of any meta thinking is to know thyself. I'm sure this article is thoroughly useful for a subset of people, but not me. It would be nice if authors were upfront about the constraints they are writing from, and especially if they didn't try to hand wave them away.
For myself, the news does not significantly affect my emotions more than a handful of times per year. I'm certainly not getting exposed to it or other goings-on through adversarial notifications. And my actual mobile pocket device generally lives by the door. Those are basic table stakes for my own existence.
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> This feels like an incredibly elaborate way to say that he's a morning person. If you read the whole article there’s a section dedicated to evening people. Regardless, the advice is about avoiding emotionally draining stimuli until you’ve accomplished what you want to do for the day. You can wake up at noon and still do that. The root problem is that people are consuming large amounts of negative news and social me…
> You can wake up at noon and still do that. That's not necessarily true. If you're a morning person managing other people that are not morning people but insist on having daily meetings in the morning, you're an asshole. I find meetings early in the morning sadistic and way more draining than reading the news, but I'm not the type that gets emotional about the news while I will react negatively in an early meeting a…