Great idea. I'm working on a farm a few blocks away this summer (in Boulder).
My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job
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#12"Optimizing for 6 hours of sleep"
"every day, getting out of bed is one of the hardest things I do"
"Every night, when I crawl into bed, I’m exhausted by all I’ve done that day."
Your body may be telling you that you need seven hours of sleep. Or eight.
How would your life change if you went to sleep an hour earlier, but you woke up feeling good?
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#13I really like this - keeping perspective is something I feel a lot of people in the tech industry has lost after (partly) lucking into a great career.
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#14This speaks so much to how the dot-com boom has changed and how young adults are re-re-re-experiencing it.
A complete full circle to the point now where to gain an authentic real world experience means to step outside of the echo chamber to do real work just to feel something real.
When they spoke of hipsters in 2001 this... this is it.
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#15The harder something is to do the more justifications we come up with to justify what it is we are doing. Employees sometimes works harder when they are paid less. Don't fall into making this same mistake.
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#16"Optimizing for 6 hours of sleep" "every day, getting out of bed is one of the hardest things I do" "Every night, when I crawl into bed, I’m exhausted by all I’ve done that day." Your body may be telling you that you need seven hours of sleep. Or eight. How would your life change if you went to sleep an hour earlier, but you woke up feeling good?
I've actually experimented a fair amount with my sleeping patterns. For the most part, I find that when I wake up in the morning, I feel tired no matter what (up until around ~10 hours of sleep). What I've also found, however, is that this tiredness usually doesn't translate to how I feel for the rest of the day — I feel good all day no matter whether I get 6 or 8 hours.
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#19Great article. I've been thinking in this lately. We, which work on tech, spend all of our work time thinking in how to resolve a problem. It doesn't matter if it is backend or frontend, but we have to approach a problem and resolve it.
I think I am a little tired of doing this all the time. Sometimes, I wonder how it would be to have a mechanical job where I have to think less and do much more, mainly physical tasks. Your experience seems a good example of this, and I think I am going to try if I find the time.
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#20I don't think this is surprising at all. You're brought up through primary/secondary education where there is a very definite requirement of when and where to be. College hits and that requirement is softened, and procrastination works out a-okay for all sorts of people. Finally, you land a tech job with flex hours and where remote is okay - suddenly you have to exercise self control in a manner that hasn't ever matt…
i am a walking testimony of a case where the much professed "ideal" solution never worked out.