I’m learning how to get along with less sleep. I’ve always been a minimum 8 hours guy. I would let myself get 7 hours sometimes but not usually.
Lately I’m getting probably 6-6.5 hours on average. I think it costs some focus and willpower, and might even threaten health more generally, but it’s an interesting trial nonetheless.
Have kids lol. No, but seriously, I learnt to live with less sleep out of necessity.
I found that the amount of sleep you need is closely connected to your health. Eat healthy, stop drinking and regular exercise makes a big difference.
The rule of thumb is 8 hours but it varies wildly for each individual. And it changes as you get older. Kids and teenagers need more than adults. The elderly generally sleep less.
You can definitely do 7 regularly. Sometimes you can do 6 but pushing the limit can mean the difference between a productive day and a crappy one.
I definitely don't function as well in some ways. We probably reduce functioning without sleep in ways we're unaware. I've noticed deep work is harder, but I can get more shallow work done which is a lot of what I end up having to do most days.
It's been a couple months of this now. I'll probably give it to the end of the year.
I tried that too, but gave up because I needed much more time after getting up to be fit and focused.
Do you do certain things to achieve this, or just try to make it a habit?
Nothing special. I just set an alarm and wake up then regardless of when I go to bed. I walk ~2.5 miles to work everyday which might serve to wake me up but I did that when I was getting more sleep.
I've gone extended periods with 4-5 hour averages, I verified that there is a "sleep tax" that builds up in your body and my limit for that schedule was about 6 months until I had to start catching back up with 8-9 hour averages.
My brother committed suicide yesterday which was on the one year anniversary of his wife doing the same. Both had their struggles.
You sort of just assume that friends and family roughly your age will be around and grow old along side of you. Sadly, it's not always the case.
I've just discharged myself from rehab at day 21 of a 28 day rehab for heroin addiction. I left early because my wife was involved in a significant car accident. She's still in intensive care with burns and broken limbs. But let's be real - 21 days was more of a detox than a rehab. If I'm being honest, I probably need 60 to 90 days in there. Clearly unable to do that right now.
Two months ago if this had happened I'd have put a syringe in my arm and had a shot to forget about this. God knows I'm stinging to do that right now too. But that's the temporary and easy way out of life. Life is hard.
Please. For your sake, and your loved ones, if things start getting rough for you don't be afraid to reach out and talk to someone - anyone - about what's going on for you. I'm assuming most people here identify as male. It's not a sign of weakness.
Putting your hand up and saying you need support is a sign of strength.
So yeah - dealing with grief. That's what I'm learning today.
First lesson is avoid anyone offering to teach you ‘how to market and scale your fitness business’ - the health and fitness market is stacked high with business coaches who will offer to 10x your client list etc etc.
The fiat high time preference mindset is all pervasive. Slow and steady will win the race.
Keep posting your content, the stuff about the turn up attitude seems to be landing so push that. Amend your bio to say a little more about your service. It’s impressive what you can do with a kettlebell but how long did take you to learn it?, do you expect me to do that on our first session?, what’s your. motivation for being a coach? What do you do and how can you help me?
All of these questions can be addressed following a daily content based marketing push and prequalify some potential clients long before you make them an offer for training.
*not marketing advice ;-) but it will totally work!
That's great! I never cooked much more than maybe a chilli (it was a good one) until my sister-in-law bought me a cookbook. I've been learning and experimenting and enjoying ever since. Good food doesn't have to be hard and damn is is satisfying to look at a dish that tastes good and say, "I made that, from just base ingredients, I made that look good, taste good, smell good. I turned unappealing into appealing". And really bringing the joy back into food.
I've been mostly zeroing in on South East Asian recipes. Sometimes the ingredients you get outside of that area just don't have the same effect. But I'm getting closer!
Azure. Coming from Unix world is a hard "religious" change but after few weeks I have discovered that they just another cloud company and not necessarily all Microsoft.
Did you know you can run FreeBSD VMs on Azure? Ya, I didn't know either.
Have to learn it for business reasons, ain't that all bad when you abstract "Microsoft smell". Think API and you will be fine, even on Azure :-)
With a name like Carlos? Not really. I have learnt Italian in the last year and have been conversing with Italian friends at dinner once a month. We always end the night with a toast.
Oh you b*stard lol
Well so far I have nothing to share. Had hardware issues and need a new ethernet port. Besides that I've been working on life and career goals.
Doing several 5 and 10 yr plans for different categories (health, finances, personal development, business etc).
Also trying to tie them all together in a make shift ikigai
Marine Electronics, growing food, python, fatherhood (21 years of practice, think I'm getting the hang of it...), Photography & editing, patience...a few things to be working on...
At least I think that's the right word. Accepting and learning from past mistakes. Helping others without expecting anything in return and at the same time realising I've still got a lot to learn.
Getting my head around Viem to interact with a smart contract on the Gnosis chain. I know: it's shitty but it's a paid job ;)
It should be simple call a read-only function in a contract right? Well...it does not work! Ghehehe...ok hang on! This live demo was broken while I was testing it. Now my weekend starts and it works...damn...love my job!
post-quantum lattice cryptography so we can replace ECDSA before the CIA gets pulls their quantum pants out of nowhere and fucks all of our bitcoin