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This is one of the most cleverly written linkbait titles I've seen. Night owls will click on it in the hope of hearing flattering news. But the grey matter is all in one particular region, and is correlated only with decreased empathy and agreeableness.https://phys.org/news/2020-06-night-owls-grey-brains-early.html …
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.
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.
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.
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.
early birds also wake up early for the same reason, so i am not sure how that correlation is exclusive to night owls.
The same reason is given by early risers, though, so not sure this explains the difference (if there is indeed one).
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It’s interesting to me that hackers seem to prefer the late-night block, while writers seem to prefer the early-morning block.
If this is true (I don't know if it is), one possible reason could be that hacking requires you to load more context into your head than writing, so interruptions are more costly.
Staying up late after you have kids remains an excellent strategy to get those big blocks, particularly in the age of COVID... just with significant consequence the next morning lol. Hence 2:30 EST twitter scrolling before racking out. Should probably just rack out.
As someone who considers themselves extroverted, I find it's when I can honestly commit myself to the real work. No calls, no inboxes to refresh, I try to make it as easy to do the deep uninterrupted thinking as I can. Paul G. tweets aside.
Sets expectations, trims fat from interactions, and focuses conversations with Producers to what's important. Creates an idea of respecting my time to create and experiment vs. managing my time.
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