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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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    3. 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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    4. 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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      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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        1. Jeff Bargmann‏ @JeffBargmann 14 Jun 2020
          Replying to @paulg

          Interested to hear how parents have managed to pull off bits of this while also fitting it in with their family life. I wonder if there are complimentary ways to go about. 🤔 Maybe wishful thinking

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        1. 4tian‏ @4tian 15 Jun 2020
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          Lifestyle is huge in going late or rising early

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        1. Francesco Sullo‏ @sullof 15 Jun 2020
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          You can be both. During the summer, I usually go to bed after 1 AM and often wake up at 6 AM or earlier. At least one day a week, though, I must sleep till very late.

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        1. Haluk Akın‏ @halukakin 15 Jun 2020
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          When you are coding something hard/important, it is similar to making a surgery.

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        1. 𝐒𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐡𝐚𝐫‏ @uxgravy 15 Jun 2020
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          So true!

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        1. Bitcoin l Crypto l Blockchain l News‏ @robertjsalvador 15 Jun 2020
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          Could you hazard a guess as to what % the top 100 entrepreneurs that you know would be? % early birds vs night owls?

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        1. ʙʟᴀᴄᴋ ʟɪᴠᴇs ᴍᴀᴛᴛᴇʀ‏ @timoni 15 Jun 2020
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          https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674065857 … Just going to keep referencing this book till folks stop talking about sleep cycles instead of chronotypes

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        1. Youssef KH (ucefkh.eth)‏ @ucefkh 15 Jun 2020
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          so true and this is why I love nights and work in them! night owls all the way ;)

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        2. Steve Sailer‏ @Steve_Sailer 15 Jun 2020
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          Managers who are better at multi-tasking tend to be morning people. Creatives and experts who are better at deep single-focusing tend to be night people. Watch out for managers who are night people, like Stalin, Hitler, and the newly de-Googled Churchill. They can be a handful.

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        3. Misha Saul‏ @misha_saul 15 Jun 2020
          Replying to @Steve_Sailer @paulg

          That true? Many famous writers were doggedly morning people

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