I do wonder what you mean by "get up at 6AM and start working." Do you immediately get out of bed and get on your computer or do you shower/eat/every other morning activity first? Does that mean you work at 6:30 or 6?
I usually wake up at about 6am. I check my email (I do personal support for the courses I run) and then spend 10-15 minutes glancing HN and a few sub-Reddits. That's usually enough time for me to finish drinking some water, all in all now it's about 6:30am. Then I go for a 60-90 minute walk. Then I'll make breakfast while eating at my desk while making about 45-60 minutes of progress on something. This could be planning out this week's video so that all I have to do is record it at a later time, work on some open source project or maybe my course platform. At this point it's close to 9am.
Also, sometimes I wake up at 6:30am and I'll walk for an hour instead of 90 minutes. Sometimes I still walk for an hour even if I wake up at 6am because it gives an extra 30 minutes to do something interesting.
Then it's close to 9am to start work, I work until 6pm with a 1 hour lunch break in between. Most of the time during that 1 hour break I'll go for a 30min walk and eat lunch. Rather than try to do something productive I use this time to idle. I never walk with podcasts going or listening to music, I just let my brain veg out. I'll also do basic exercise during this time like push ups, sit ups and I've started to jump rope now too.
After 6pm I'll make dinner and relax a bit. By 7pm I usually take another 30min walk, then shower. Then I spend about another hour or so trying to do something useful (progress on something, reading, etc.). Then I'll watch a movie from like 9pm to 11pm and goto sleep. My evenings vary. Sometimes I don't put in that extra hour and play video games instead. Sometimes I might decide to eat out with a friend but not really that often. I need more hobbies and I wish covid wasn't a thing anymore because I wouldn't mind doing other things in the evenings but a lot of it is indoors.
Needless to say I highly value unplugged walking time where I think about whatever pops up in my mind. It's hard to measure productivity but I'm sure I could probably spend half that amount of time and still get value of it but working 9-6 doesn't leave that much flexibility to break up the day much better.
Basically, yes. I work remotely, so I'm not a huge breakfast guy. I have a banana and yogurt on my desk as a quick breakfast right after I wake up and then start working.
nickjj|3 years ago
I usually wake up at about 6am. I check my email (I do personal support for the courses I run) and then spend 10-15 minutes glancing HN and a few sub-Reddits. That's usually enough time for me to finish drinking some water, all in all now it's about 6:30am. Then I go for a 60-90 minute walk. Then I'll make breakfast while eating at my desk while making about 45-60 minutes of progress on something. This could be planning out this week's video so that all I have to do is record it at a later time, work on some open source project or maybe my course platform. At this point it's close to 9am.
Also, sometimes I wake up at 6:30am and I'll walk for an hour instead of 90 minutes. Sometimes I still walk for an hour even if I wake up at 6am because it gives an extra 30 minutes to do something interesting.
Then it's close to 9am to start work, I work until 6pm with a 1 hour lunch break in between. Most of the time during that 1 hour break I'll go for a 30min walk and eat lunch. Rather than try to do something productive I use this time to idle. I never walk with podcasts going or listening to music, I just let my brain veg out. I'll also do basic exercise during this time like push ups, sit ups and I've started to jump rope now too.
After 6pm I'll make dinner and relax a bit. By 7pm I usually take another 30min walk, then shower. Then I spend about another hour or so trying to do something useful (progress on something, reading, etc.). Then I'll watch a movie from like 9pm to 11pm and goto sleep. My evenings vary. Sometimes I don't put in that extra hour and play video games instead. Sometimes I might decide to eat out with a friend but not really that often. I need more hobbies and I wish covid wasn't a thing anymore because I wouldn't mind doing other things in the evenings but a lot of it is indoors.
Needless to say I highly value unplugged walking time where I think about whatever pops up in my mind. It's hard to measure productivity but I'm sure I could probably spend half that amount of time and still get value of it but working 9-6 doesn't leave that much flexibility to break up the day much better.
fer_momento|3 years ago
hackerlight|3 years ago