<story><title>Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/02/25/early-riser-or-night-owl-new-study-may-help-to-explain-the-difference/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ZanyProgrammer</author><text>Maybe it’s just the small subset of software engineers who frequent HN, but I swear 99.9% of the people on here are night owls, and they very much let their opinions be known on every thread about sleep.</text></item><item><author>bilekas</author><text>I am very much a night owl and I have a really hard time getting into a routine of getting up early in the morning, even if I do manage to get my hours of sleep.&lt;p&gt;It took a long time to find a balance of forcing to sleep and forcing to get up. But now I have to be very concious, if I have a late weekend I am out of sync for the rest of the week.&lt;p&gt;People say its a lazy thing, but its really not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>poulsbohemian</author><text>Nearly everywhere in US society where productivity comes up, the “early bird” is held up as the standard of efficiency. Thus, those people who instead prefer a schedule that doesn’t begin pre-dawn have been chastised in books, talks, and in media despite there not being any proof that that they are “lazy” but rather are simply naturally attuned to a different schedule.</text></comment>
<story><title>Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/02/25/early-riser-or-night-owl-new-study-may-help-to-explain-the-difference/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ZanyProgrammer</author><text>Maybe it’s just the small subset of software engineers who frequent HN, but I swear 99.9% of the people on here are night owls, and they very much let their opinions be known on every thread about sleep.</text></item><item><author>bilekas</author><text>I am very much a night owl and I have a really hard time getting into a routine of getting up early in the morning, even if I do manage to get my hours of sleep.&lt;p&gt;It took a long time to find a balance of forcing to sleep and forcing to get up. But now I have to be very concious, if I have a late weekend I am out of sync for the rest of the week.&lt;p&gt;People say its a lazy thing, but its really not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>Well, they&amp;#x27;re the ones most likely to click on threads about sleep probably.</text></comment>