<story><title>Sleep quality and consistency associated with better academic performance (2019)</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-019-0055-z</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sovietmudkipz</author><text>I want a better sleep schedule but not bad enough to put it into practice. My day is full of stuff, and when my wife goes to sleep is when I feel like it&amp;#x27;s finally quiet enough to get some programming done. Or do whatever I want.&lt;p&gt;My sleep cycle is that I go 4 days until I have to take a longer sleep (10 hours) and the rest of the time I operate on 6-7 hours of sleep. I usually wake up at 7-7:30 and I usually go to bed at 12-1 or 9-10 on my long sleep days. It&amp;#x27;s inconsistent and I worry about that fact.&lt;p&gt;The biggest blocker for me is my time alone and distraction free. I like and want distractions to be gone when I work on personal projects. Early morning doesn&amp;#x27;t get me that as my wife wakes up at 5:15 (maybe if I woke up at 4?). If she&amp;#x27;s up and I&amp;#x27;m up there are interactions which is great. And then there&amp;#x27;s text messages from friends and family and work chat all day. I can mute both and do but it&amp;#x27;s there, beckoning me for my attention. To take my focus...&lt;p&gt;Look I know what the answer is for me. I need to replace work time with project time. My life would be in more balance if I had my 9-5 chunk of time where I do what I like doing (vs work stuff) so I don&amp;#x27;t feel like I&amp;#x27;m living 3 lives in a single day.&lt;p&gt;That implies my personal projects make enough money to have a family on. Not true now so the grind continues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&amp;gt; I want a better sleep schedule but not bad enough to put it into practice&lt;p&gt;This sums up the issue. Most people could get decent sleep if they wanted to or even made a basic effort, but their current poor-sleep compromise isn’t bad enough to make them want to give anything up. Or they don’t understand what they’re losing because it has been so long since they tried a reasonable sleep schedule.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; That implies my personal projects make enough money to have a family on. Not true now so the grind continues.&lt;p&gt;Consider giving up the side projects for a month or two. Side projects are one of the topics where people think they’re going to miss it more than they actually do. A month or two of total disconnectedness won’t sink your side projects, but it’s long enough to test the waters of a healthier sleep schedule.&lt;p&gt;You may find that after getting your sleep under control, your daily efficiency and energy levels improve such that you’re getting your work done faster, spending more quality time with your spouse, and ultimately freeing up a nice slot of usable free time in the day that could spend on side projects without wrecking your sleep schedule.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sleep quality and consistency associated with better academic performance (2019)</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-019-0055-z</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sovietmudkipz</author><text>I want a better sleep schedule but not bad enough to put it into practice. My day is full of stuff, and when my wife goes to sleep is when I feel like it&amp;#x27;s finally quiet enough to get some programming done. Or do whatever I want.&lt;p&gt;My sleep cycle is that I go 4 days until I have to take a longer sleep (10 hours) and the rest of the time I operate on 6-7 hours of sleep. I usually wake up at 7-7:30 and I usually go to bed at 12-1 or 9-10 on my long sleep days. It&amp;#x27;s inconsistent and I worry about that fact.&lt;p&gt;The biggest blocker for me is my time alone and distraction free. I like and want distractions to be gone when I work on personal projects. Early morning doesn&amp;#x27;t get me that as my wife wakes up at 5:15 (maybe if I woke up at 4?). If she&amp;#x27;s up and I&amp;#x27;m up there are interactions which is great. And then there&amp;#x27;s text messages from friends and family and work chat all day. I can mute both and do but it&amp;#x27;s there, beckoning me for my attention. To take my focus...&lt;p&gt;Look I know what the answer is for me. I need to replace work time with project time. My life would be in more balance if I had my 9-5 chunk of time where I do what I like doing (vs work stuff) so I don&amp;#x27;t feel like I&amp;#x27;m living 3 lives in a single day.&lt;p&gt;That implies my personal projects make enough money to have a family on. Not true now so the grind continues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_af</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;when my wife goes to sleep is when I feel like it&amp;#x27;s finally quiet enough to get some programming done&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I tend to do this when I want to work on my hobbies, but then the relationship with my wife suffers. We enjoy going to bed together, it&amp;#x27;s part of the ritual of being a couple. I tried going to bed, then after she falls asleep getting up, but by then I&amp;#x27;m too sleepy myself.</text></comment>