Poll: When do you usually go to bed? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: When do you usually go to bed?

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Post by CRASCH » Mon, Jul 26, 2010, 3:15 AM UTC

I go to bed late sometime after 3:00am and before the sun comes up. It really sucks trying to fall asleep when it is bright.

I stay up late out of necessity. I work from home (on my startup) and I have a large family. That means the only time I get uninterrupted time is after 11:00pm. I need the uninterrupted time for the difficult problems. Other work I can bang out during the day.

The down side is I sleep until noon.

When I had a 9-5, I stayed up until 2:00-3:00 got up at 8:00 and was in the office by 9:00. I would catch up on sleep over the weekends.

Re: Poll: When do you usually go to bed?

#52

Post by thedigitalengel » Mon, Jul 26, 2010, 5:04 AM UTC

The early to bed and early to rise paradigm works incredibly well for me - there is something about being up before sunrise that boosts my productivity.

I sleep 5 hours when I'm not working out and around 8 hours when I am; which means my sleeping hours are either [12 AM, 5 AM] or [10 AM, 6 AM].

Re: Poll: When do you usually go to bed?

#53

Post by sabj » Mon, Jul 26, 2010, 7:48 AM UTC

In the silence of the night, the world hums and purrs with silent energy -- the tantalizing electric potential of opportunity, latent in the night air, each pregnant moment of reflection brimming with inspirations born unheralded from the ether.

So yes, late night is the way to go for me. While other sleep, I dream.

Re: Poll: When do you usually go to bed?

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Post by GFischer » Mon, Jul 26, 2010, 7:39 PM UTC

silversmith wrote: post #48

jakevoytko wrote: post #20

I wake up at 6:30 to beat the traffic, so I go to bed between 10:30 and 11:30. Waking early has some benefits: working for a few hours before your coworkers are awake is a nice feeling, and I get home in time to run and and cook dinner at a reasonable hour. On the other hand, if a crisis happens at work, everyone else's 9 hour day is my 12 hour day

I've gone into a pattern of going to bet sometime between 12:00 and 1:00, and then waking around 7:00. I am sure this is going to bite me hard in years to come, but damn, at least I have time to get things done this way.

I do the same, but then I collapse on Friday evening and quite a bit of the weekend.

And having a girlfriend doesn't make it any easier.