Now that I think about it, though, it's not at all surprising that being a night owl is inversely correlated with being pro-social. When I used to stay up late (before I had kids) it was explicitly in order to have big blocks of time to work without being interrupted.
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One advantage of staying up late over getting up early, as a way to get blocks of time to work, is that you can control when you stop working: you stop when you feel too tired, rather than when the rest of the world wakes up and starts interrupting you.
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Since, as I've written before (http://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html …) the mere possibility of being interrupted makes one less productive, an hour at night feels more valuable to me than one in the morning.
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If you're on a roll late at night, you can keep working. The price will be that you feel tired the next day, but you can choose to pay it. But if you're on a roll in the morning and your kids wake up, or people start to call you, you're stopping whether you want to or not.
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Ouch. So night owls are exhausting-based-Aspergers.
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It's very clickbaity haha
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I didn't think to click it as I thought the article was literally about avian neurophysiology. Maybe they should've emphasized night owls and early birds more as being types of people.
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The same thing happened to me initially. For a second or two I thought it was a comparison between present-day owls and fossil evidence about early birds. Which seemed odd.
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Night owls are a product of distorted circadian rhythms courtesy of Thomas Edison. Makes you wonder how screens impact grey matter development, in kids & adults
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Interesting hypothesis, worth exploring. But devil's advocate: humans wrote by candle light, told stories by the fire, and ploughed fields by moonlight, way before electricity.
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