Discussion on: 101 Tips For Being A Great Programmer (& Human)

Very true,
Your readiness depends on how well you recover (Mentally/Physically) during sleep. Surprisingly many factors have to be in order:

• Enough hours, deep and rem stages
• Get your pulse down early (during the deep sleep stage)
• Get your Harth Rate Variation up (recovers your brain) etc,

I've been improving it by knowing what effects on those and using Oura to track it (Anyone knows about that nordic high-tech startup? ouraring.com/ )

For me and most of us those are just simple things:

• Go early to bed, and always around the same time
• Enough sleep in hours
• No screentime (definitely no emails/work) before going to bed (Stress is lowering my HRV ;/ )
• No sports (heavy) before at least 3 hours before going to bed.

My last night stats (just a few of them):