This story hilariously epitomizes the gulf that lies between the tech scene and the rest of the population. For you a low paying job is a hobby to keep you in check, I'm sure only so long that it doesn't impede your "real job". For most, these jobs are an important source of income. Doesn't it strike you as slightly obnoxious to take such a job away from someone who needs it? I can see this story ending up in Mike Judge's "Silicon Valley". Here's a better "hack": hire smart people away from low paying jobs for your startup, pay them more, and go for a bike ride in the morning.
My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job
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#72LOVE this idea. A great way to get exercise and force yourself to step outside our little startup/tech bubble to experience more of the "real world".
In the REAL real world, the bagel place has a guy with a truck who drives around delivering bagels.
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#73Today I got out of bed at 3pm, I'm a student and know I can get away with working through the night instead.
I know that, like the article, if I have a reason to get up, it makes it so much easier for me!
Defiantly a tactic i'll employ if one of my ideas starts taking off!
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#74I like this story for a couple of reasons, it forces the wakeup (always good) but it also enforces regular exercise. I'm going to have to figure out how to do something similar.
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#75Sounds like the OP is happy with his schedule, which is great. However everyone needs different lengths of sleep for the body to process/release toxins. For me it's 8 hours at least to wake up feeling refreshed and not relying on coffee or other stimulants to go through the day. As for waking up feeling tired no matter when, the optimal timing for waking up matters and is at the end of a 90 minute sleep cycle (you ne…
Sounded good except for 'toxins' which I pretty much always see used as a pseudo science catch all. Do you have some cites for that being an actual process?
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#76I have to say that this is not unrelated to the post earlier this week about startup culture in Oakland. This post and the author of it reflects, to me, the vibe of the east bay.
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#77I'm glad you appreciate the value of a healthy, balanced lifestyle. But reading this, it's easy to see why people post "Die Techie Scum" stickers around SF. You've taken a job that someone else could actually use to help pay rent and have turned it into a hobby. If I did this job for a living I would be furious at the arrogance of someone treating as an exercise in "Feeling Good". Get some perspective.
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#78My mom has a newspaper delivery route that she doesn't need. She uses it for exercise and spends the money she earns on her YMCA membership, which she also uses for exercise...
She was selected as Carrier of the Month one time and was asked to answer the following questions so that she could be profiled in the paper:
What do you want to be when you get older?
What to you use the money for that you earn delivering the newspaper?
What are your favourite hobbies?
What is your favourite subject at school?
I only remember her answer to the first question, "wiser."
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
For diagnosis you need to go to a hospital that does sleep studies. They will hook you up with a sleep apnea machine and sensors and they will monitor your sleep overnight. I was diagnosed with sleep apnea at around 20, which is rare for a young, healthy person. In my case I think it's just genetic because my dad has it. But I figured out something was wrong because I would sleep 10-12 hours and still wake up feeling…
After I got married, and my wife observed my sleep apnea, I did a sleep study. My apnea was infrequent/mild enough that the doctor considered CPAP unnecessarily invasive/expensive. She told me to take a sock, put a tennis ball in it, safety pin it to the back of a t-shirt, and sleep in that.
Does that just stop you from moving onto your back while you sleep or is there some other goal?
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#80how is getting up early an achievement? I really don't get it.