How do you wake up in the morning? • Hacker News Board

Re: How do you wake up in the morning?

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Post by sprockett » Thu, Jan 31, 2013, 3:50 AM UTC

I am trying a new method.

Code till I want to stop coding, wake up when I want to wake up.

The only thing is to do regular weekly progress checks. So at the end of the week, I'll actually take a stock check of what I have accomplished. As long as its pretty reasonable progress (say 40-50hours coding with actual results), then I'm good to go.

I find my body is hard to understand. Some days I can code for 12 hours. Some days I can code for 2. Some days I wake up bright and chirpy in the morning. Some days I dont.

Re: How do you wake up in the morning?

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Post by traxtech » Thu, Jan 31, 2013, 8:13 AM UTC

Always wake up at the same time (WE included), go to bed as soon as feeling tired : give marks to, and listen to your own body.

Re: How do you wake up in the morning?

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Post by jlengrand » Thu, Jan 31, 2013, 9:34 AM UTC

I had the very same problem until a few weeks ago.

I decided to take the problem the other way around : - What most devs want is to be in a quiet place to be in the zone.

Instead of coding till 3am and already be exhausted because of the day you had to make, get up at 5 and code directly out of the bed.

Get your shit done before others get to work. Then there is no reason to stay up late any more, and you can go to sleep around 10pm. The alarm clock will not be a pain any more.

I am still in transition but find this awesome.

Re: How do you wake up in the morning?

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Post by munimkazia » Thu, Jan 31, 2013, 8:16 PM UTC

There is no other way to fix it than to get more and timely sleep. You won't be able to wake up early if you have late nights with your laptop. Force yourself to stop working after 10pm. Read books if you feel the need to do something.

Re: How do you wake up in the morning?

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Post by logn » Fri, Feb 01, 2013, 10:00 AM UTC

On Android, Alarm Clock Xtreme. It makes me solve math problems. Can also do captchas. It's truly the most important app I've ever used and I'm very thankful to the developer.

A side note: lack of sleep is terrible for your mental health and will seriously impact your work performance. Please get more sleep. And catch up on sleep as much as you can.

Re: How do you wake up in the morning?

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Post by SBArbeit » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 5:34 AM UTC

Listen to your body at a deeper level. It tells you when you're tired. Do not let your mind tell you that you have to keep working/thinking or... some bad thing will happen. That's what the mind will always tell you. What does your body tell you? The only way to know is to stop, take a few deep breaths, and check in. If you're really tired, listen to that. Sleep is more important than that last line of code. Your body has an incredible intelligence that our culture no longer honors.

If you're a night person, honor that by setting the expectation at work that you'll come in later and stay later. My mind is completely foggy in the morning, and completely clear in the evening/night. My natural rhythm (when I get to do it) is to be awake until about 4:00 AM and sleep until around 12:00 PM. I let the first part of the day go by, and then work in the second part when my mind is far more clear, right until before I sleep. My best work frequently happens between 10:00 PM and 3:00 AM. When I hear about people waking up at 4:00 AM, I think, good for you, but that's not a universal prescription (look up the word "chronotype").

Re: How do you wake up in the morning?

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Post by SCAQTony » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 6:58 AM UTC

It takes me 30-minutes... The alarm goes off and I hit the sleep button six times. You are probably young and you need more sleep. This may not help but it gets easier to wake up the older you get.