Having three young boys, all this discussion is rendered meaningless. I wake when they jump on my face.
The Serenity of a 5pm Bedtime
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#102As living in your next door - Stop right now and stop that noise during the nights! everyone hates you
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#103It looks like you didn't get the memo. Those of us who embrace this magical nocturnal world don't praise it to the day walkers. It gives them the terrible idea that it may be good for them to try. If this pattern were to continue, our reign over the darkness would surely end. Do be more careful in the future. Thanks.
Night gathers, and now my watch begins
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#104This sounds isolating, and you'll lose a few hours of sunlight in spring/summer months.
To quote Seinfeld: Serenity now, insanity later.
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#105I tend to sleep from 5am - 10am and take a 3 hour nap during the day, say 1pm - 4pm. It's a bit degenerate but I work from home and can do this. The advantages are I fulfill all my night-owl hacking needs and have a good social life. And I can make any morning meetings by adjusting my first sleep to 4am - 8am. Apparently before the invention of the light bulb, most people divided their sleep into two sections. The de…
I wasnt aware of this 'second sleep' phenomenon. Sort of a reverse siesta?
It basically is the siesta model. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep
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#106This is great if you're happy to forego all social activity outside professional/academic endeavors...
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#107Everything here revolves around the sun, literally. If you're depriving yourself of the natural energy you naturally attempt to get I can only imagine you'll have to turn to artificial energy eventually (a lot of it). Just seems too unnatural to me to fight what your body was made to do.
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#108The author mentions it at the end but this schedule is really only good for the asocial. I submit that unless you truly have a aversion to social interaction, it will get lonely. I know this because I used to work night shifts and pretty much had this schedule. You end up losing the period of socialization which is typically 4-10PM, where people go to dance classes, have dinners with friends, go get drinks etc... and…
I think it works for maker's who take a long term view of returns on social investments. Sacrificing friends of a certain quality today in order to put in the work it takes to make friends with the people one admires, but doesn't currently know, and whom can raise their stock in life, so to speak, has a higher relative return than being present with his college bar crowd. I'm not suggesting friendship should be a bus…
Hilarious.
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#109I like this schedule as well. Benjamin Franklin is well-quoted as saying "early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise". In particular, the 1am to 8am work cycle can be highly productive since email and other distractions are generally quiet then.
I believe the counter to that quote is "Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy but socially dead."
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
A dog is the perfect alarm clock :) It does curtail your lifestyle somewhat but so does having a family. We jokingly refer to him as our 'practice run' for having a child.
A family definitely curtails lifestyle more than a dog. I find that in an urban environment, the dog is actually much more constraining when dealing with _society_ (i.e. neglecting that a child requires much more "training" investment). Dogs can't ride public transportation. Dogs aren't welcome in cabs or many stores (esp. food stores). Poor dog behavior at home may mean constant barking, which neighbors will not tol…
+ 1 this is an important point.
We live 200 metres from a very large off leash dog park. Lots of dogs means good socialisation. Lots of off leash exercise means a contented dog who doesnt bark or cause trouble.
If the park wasnt so close we either wouldnt be living here or wouldnt have a dog. Its essential in an urban area.