[pretoriusB]

>What about if I wake at 05:00? Or 04:30? Or 02:00?

Then go back to sleep, dummy. Does he have to spell it out for you?

>Where is the wisdom that solves all my problems, enabling me not to have to make any decisions?

That's called being dead. Until then try to take advice for what it is: a recipe that you can try and adjust to taste.

[ColinWright]

So this post amounts to say:

Here's a suggestion: wake up, look at the clock. Now make a decision about whether it's time to get up, then take action based on that.

This is new? This is news? This is helpful? This is of deep interest?

None of the above - it was a waste of time.

But it's not just this one thing. I see so many people intent on sharing their personal revelations that it's now impossible to find genuine insights that are more widely applicable than that one person's experience. This is the age of crowd-sourced "wisdom", where everyone thinks their own discoveries will apply universally. Anecdote over data, experience over research.

However, I am going to learn something from it. There's a lesson that I'm taking away for my own personal growth and edification. I'll share it here with you in case you want to learn from it as well: some stuff on HN (and other sites) is a complete waste of time. Be ruthless about what you read - you only have one life to spend. Time spent cannot be regained.

Edited to remove some snark and tidy up.

[noahc]

I agree with you that this is not HN worthy. However, I think you're taking the wrong approach to stuff like this. Obviously the best thing to do is not read it. However, as others have pointed out these are recipes. You'll need to do your own tweaking, testing, changing, and perhaps even rewrite most of it. This is how you get started, not where you jump off.

[pretoriusB]

>So I still have to wake, look at the clock, make a decision about whether it's time to get up, then take action based on that.

Yes, no magic unicorns and fairies spreading pixie dust to wake you up at just the right moment, I'm afraid.

The indecipherable to you message of the story is: don't go back to sleep if you happen to wake up shortly before the alarm clock. Just wake up.

Now, if you woke yourself up at 3:00, as you ask in your previous comment, that doesn't fall on the "shortly" period before a 6:30 way, so by all means go back to sleep. I mean, Oh, those hard decisions...

>But it's not just this one thing. I see so many people intent on sharing their personal revelations that it's now impossible to find genuine insights that are more widely applicable than that one person's experience. This is the age of crowd-sourced "wisdom", where everyone thinks their own discoveries will apply universally. Anecdote over data, experience over research.

I think that what you write above ONLY APPLIES TO YOU. Perhaps you should do some more research into the matter, instead of shoving your personal anecdotes on to us.