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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 14 Jun 2020

      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 …

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    2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 14 Jun 2020

      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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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 14 Jun 2020

      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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        2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 14 Jun 2020

          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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        3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 14 Jun 2020

          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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        2. Vineet Dixit‏ @vinndixie 14 Jun 2020
          Replying to @paulg

          When I was in college, someone told me that studying late at night is better than waking up early to study. Apparently it helps your brain process and retain that knowledge when you go to bed. I really don't know if that actually worked.

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        3. Jeff Bargmann‏ @JeffBargmann 15 Jun 2020
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          Bingo. Brain does some really great problem solving & consolidation overnight. Check out https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501144324  🙌🙌

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        1. Anup Yadav‏ @takuiten 14 Jun 2020
          Replying to @paulg

          Working late is easier than waking up early to work because the latter involves a certain degree of prediction. It is the same reason why our daily routines fail.

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        1. Dan Edmonson‏ @dansedmonson 14 Jun 2020
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          Also, a hard deadline (kids awakening ~6) can be a strong motivator for morning work. In fact, I’m on the East Coast and just got up to prepare for the week!

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        1. Josh Ribakoff‏ @joshribakoff 14 Jun 2020
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          Working nights and weekends promotes diffuse thinking in my experience

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        1. Jeff Bargmann‏ @JeffBargmann 14 Jun 2020
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          This. 💞🎯 Night time = let engine run (naturally) until it’s ready to wind down. Also some extra creativity entropy from the loopiness 🤷🏻‍♂️

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        1. Giorgio Gilestro‏ @giorgiogilestro 14 Jun 2020
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          While the idea of social isolation is intriguing, you are writing as if working late night or early morning was a choice. It's largely not. It's rather a genetic predisposition.

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