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Post by sudosteph »

chukye wrote: post #9

I smoke weed to get creative, drink a lot of coffee and do a lot of online meetings, have some crazy hours, but I also get my work done before(better?) everyone else. I would never fit in any workplace (tried a few but none fit), I have a big chair, 3 big monitors and a bong, also can talk with my team fellows every time I want, but we really don't need to talk too much, if you understand your product, understand you…

Do you take any supplements to help with the long-term cognitive effects of frequent weed? That's the one thing that concerns me about continuing to partake as a professional (vs just doing it in college while working on projects, which was enjoyable)

Some of my friends have said that citicholine has been helpful for them. Wondering if you have any techniques yourself?

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Post by sudosteph »

edoceo wrote: post #125
chukye wrote: post #9

I smoke weed to get creative, drink a lot of coffee and do a lot of online meetings, have some crazy hours, but I also get my work done before(better?) everyone else. I would never fit in any workplace (tried a few but none fit), I have a big chair, 3 big monitors and a bong, also can talk with my team fellows every time I want, but we really don't need to talk too much, if you understand your product, understand you…

You looking for work? I only hire "pot heads".

I feel like that makes for the best corporate culture ever. I've made so many good relationships even better by getting to know someone over a joint.

And much better than all the places where people go out drinking after work. I wish this were more socially acceptable.

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Post by jdbernard »

hobarrera wrote: post #191
jdbernard wrote: post #157

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This is in the context of shifting your schedule towards being an early-riser, so I imagine you'd be going to bed at no later then 10pm, not much more than the 90 minutes you are thinking of.

"Early-riser" is sleeping from midnight to 0900hs for me. Not sure HOW early you're aiming at.

Personally I went from being a night owl (0100 or 0200 -> 0800 or 0900) to being an early riser (2130 -> 0500).

0900 is historically the beginning of the business day. "Bankers hours" start at 0800. Traditional businesses expect people to be at the office by then so I would think you would need to rise by 7 or 8 at the latest to be "normal". An early riser would be getting up a few hours before that.

Also in pretty much all parts of the world you've missed the sunrise by 9AM. Not really an early riser if the sun is fully risen before you wake.

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Post by npsimons »

If employers had to pay employees from the time they left their front door, instead of externalizing the cost to the employees, we'd find out pretty quickly just how "inefficient" remote working really was. That, and/or salaries would start to compensate for real estate prices.

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Post by npsimons »

mi100hael wrote: post #167
antisthenes wrote: post #155

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There's a lot of misinformation here, so let's go 1 by 1. For the record, I'm a night owl, and I've been trying to change my schedule to a morning person for about 11 years now (with limited success). 1. Sure, that works, for a time, possibly even a few months. Until you begin subconsciously turning the alarms off or hitting the snooze. That leads to a self-reinforcing loop of "turn alarm off --> pleasure from sleep…

> Until you begin subconsciously turning the alarms off or hitting the snooze. Your counter-argument here appears to be "it's hard." Sure, it is, but your goal is to make it easier by ensuring a routine, a better nights sleep, etc. Some mornings still suck, but they still suck when it's 9am and the bed is warm and you're already late and don't want to go to work. > That's simply not true. Coffee takes about 5-7 hours…

> Spend some time in the kitchen preparing your breakfast and lunch. Do some laundry or house cleaning. Get your things ready for the next day so you wake up without stress.

This makes a big difference: set it up so that all you have to do in the morning is jump out of bed and put on shoes then head out the door. Have everything you possibly can packed and in the car/bicycle trunk. Shower before bed, or after your workout in the morning. Virtual inertia can make it harder to get going in the mornings; eliminate it.

> Possibly the number one greatest thing about waking up early is that you all of a sudden have an extra two or three hours all to yourself. You can work out early in the morning,

It's funny too, because I had the exact same response to the "luxury of choosing when they get to work out." Getting up earlier is the perfect life hack to jobs that you can't take a workout break from, because you now are getting your workout in before you even get to the office, when the gym is least crowded. Bonus: sleep in your workout clothes, then you only have to change clothes once instead of getting dressed for work in the morning, then changing to workout clothes at the gym, then changing back to office clothing.

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Post by Arizhel »

programmarchy wrote: post #202
Arizhel wrote: post #163

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Exactly. This is why people with children shouldn't also have jobs. At least one person needs to be at home to take care of the kids. However, with divorce so commonplace, you can't count on having one spouse earning an income any more, it's just too much of a risk, so I don't think anyone should have any kids at all. Having kids simply is not compatible with living in modern society. (No, this is not satire.)

You're not wrong. Women entering the workforce instead of staying home to mother children has a detrimental effect on families, despite receiving praise as social progress. It's good for corporations because it doubles the labor supply, lowering wages for both men and women. States love it because they receive more income tax, since household work was previously untaxed. Families, especially children, are getting the…

>Women entering the workforce instead of staying home to mother children has a detrimental effect on families, despite receiving praise as social progress.

It IS progress, for individual women or single moms who weren't lucky enough to hook up with a good-enough husband, or who didn't want to go the traditional family-and-kids route in life. It's been detrimental to society overall however because it's become a norm, and almost a requirement for families to earn enough to stay out of the ghetto; families don't feel they have the luxury to have only one working parent because the cost-of-living is too high, and also, many women feel (usually correctly) that they'd commit career suicide by taking off a few years to be a stay-at-home mom, because companies don't value this and see workers who take a few years' break as no longer employable.

>Families, especially children, are getting the shaft.

Yep.

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Post by Arizhel »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #201
Arizhel wrote: post #162

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This happened to me in my first job. I'm definitely a night-owl, but I was tired of coming in at 10-11 and leaving after dark, after everyone else including my boss had left, so I decided to change my routine and get up early and get to work by ~7-8. This worked great for about a week, until my boss started complaining about me leaving so early. So I switched back to my old routine of coming in really, really late, a…

Maybe you should complain about them getting in late?

Complaining about when your boss shows up to work isn't a recipe for success in any job.

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Post by mixmastamyk »

Arizhel wrote: post #217
mixmastamyk wrote: post #201

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Maybe you should complain about them getting in late?

Complaining about when your boss shows up to work isn't a recipe for success in any job.

Complaining might be a strong word, but I would definitely have a pithy comeback ready at the first sign of criticism, eg. "Ok, Mr. StartsAtEleven…", "early to bed, early to rise..", etc.

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Post by SippinLean »

rwmurrayVT wrote: post #208
SippinLean wrote: post #90

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False equivalency, all chemically altered states are the same? If someone used alcohol (another of your examples) at work, during the work day you'd consider an intervention; you wouldn't shrug and say "eh, bags of chemicals".

It's really hard to interpret what you mean by this comment when your username is "SippinLean".

Let my biography serve as a cautionary tale
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