A day in the life of Lloyd Squires, Vermont's 'best' bagel maker
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A day in the life of Lloyd Squires, Vermont's 'best' bagel maker
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#2Awesome seeing Vermont on the front page of HN. I can attest these bagels are amazing, I used to get them throughout college.
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#3How can he sustain this 5 hour sleep schedule?
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#4When I think I am working hard, I watch folks like this, and I know I have it easy.
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#5> He rarely gets four hours of sleep.
Right.
I genuinely don't get where this glorification of no/ little sleep is coming from.
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#6How can he sustain this 5 hour sleep schedule?
Some people actually are short-sleepers naturally. He might be one of them. Or he might just be perpetually exhausted to the point where he's learned to "function" on less sleep.
Speaking from personal experience, you can get used to 4-5 hours a night and think you're okay. Starting getting north of 7 and you will notice a difference after a week. (Unless you're a short sleeper, I suppose they just can't sleep that much.)
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#7I've been to this bagel shop multiple times and I can attest that it's good. It's in a pretty rundown building with an unpaved parking lot. It just goes to show that quality is not always about aesthetics.
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#8He then worked 15-hour days, seven days a week for seven years.
"I've never worked less than 65 hours a week," he says.
He's barely gotten outside of Vermont and Montreal because of the schedule. Now, fortunately, he gets a day off on the weekend. He's recently been to both Connecticut and Boston.
NOOOOPE.
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#9How can he sustain this 5 hour sleep schedule?
Some do get by on very little sleep and claim to be able to functionally do so. However, there is a growing body of evidence to indicate that this has serious long term health effects and may contribute to dimentia later in life.
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#10I love portraits like this, as the lifestyle is so far from anything I experience in my day to day.
Along these lines, although this seems very tame in comparison, I'm reminded of the "A Day in the Life" chapter from Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential (which I highly recommend):
"Thanks to my Bigfoot training I wake up automatically at five minutes before six. It's still dark, and I lie in bed in the pitch-black for a while, smoking, the day's specials and prep lists already coming together in my head. It's Friday, so the weekend orders will be coming in: twenty-five cases of mesclun, eighteen cases of GPOD 70-count potatoes, four whole forequarters of lamb, two cases of beef tenderloins, hundreds and hundreds of pounds of meat, bones, produce, seafood, dry goods and dairy. I know what's coming, and the general order in which it will probably arrive, so I'm thinking triage -sorting out in my head what gets done first, and by whom, and what gets left until later."