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Why you should be a "Night Owl"

Austin French on August 21, 2020

1. You get more time in the day OK, the amount of time you are awake, and in the day would be roughly equal. But your productive hours a...
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Nicola Erario • Edited

I only agree with point number 3.

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Ben Halpern

lol

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Austin French

I'll take some lulz

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Matthieu Cneude

I think early risers are better because they rise early. The sun rise early too, and it does a great deal of stuff, like keeping us alive. It's quite nice, and I think early risers enlighten their peers. After all, it's a question of discipline and will and habits and personal purpose, like I have, and you don't.

I think as well that OOP is better than FP, that space is better than tab, and that static type checking is better than dynamic type checking.

It's quite scientifically proved, but I lost the link to the studies. It's behind a paywall, anyway.

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Austin French

It's a bit presumptuous to assume you have any characteristics I don't because of our circadian rhythms being different.

There have been GREAT people who were night owls. Obama, Carl Jung...

We also have to consider perhaps on the reasons we might have "night owls". Our very distant ancestors were nocturnal. Perhaps we have vestigial night owls because of that.

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Matthieu Cneude

What I regret the most with Internet is the difficulty to be ironic.

I'm sorry. My post was a total joke. I don't think anybody is better because they work the morning. It's a false debate which has no sense to me.

What I think is: learn to know how you work and don't listen to anybody telling you how to do stuff without experimenting for yourself.

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Austin French

This! lol.

Yes, that was my goal with the post. Whatever works for anyone is exactly what they should be doing!

I mean, I knew spaces over tabs just had to be a joke ;)

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Austin French

Yes, that was my final point actually. We all have "chronotypes" or our own circadian rhythm. I think it's something like 20% of us are "wired" to be night owls.

So while one might be on a cusp of say a morning person, and a mid-day person and a little discipline can override that person's natural cycle. There are people like me who can spends years trying to adapt to a "morning" routine and it sucks, everyday, for years. A week of a little freedom though and I snap to a night routine without issue.

Messing with my internal rhythms means: waking up early.

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Austin French

It certainly can be harder with all of life happening around you. Lucky for me, I can sleep almost anywhere, anytime.

As for the 20%, it was from memory. I tried to find a current, relevant post for you however:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3...

It's far from exactly what I had in mind though, as the demographics are pretty slim.

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Austin French

I gotta say, as much as I am a night person... I'm also a summer / outdoors person. Kayaking at night would not be a great experience! Although, 20 miles on a bike at night is fine! It's also a blast at sundown for me.

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M-H Hashemian

I had not looked at it that way. ๐Ÿ‘Œ

 
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Austin French

I love rivers and the ocean. I just can't imagine doing them very safely at night! Although I have debated a few lakes for a lake kayak adventure!

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Andrew Baisden

I agree with point number 2 if it can work for Batman then it can work for everyone.

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Arif Zuhairi

Make the most of the night time then