Life Hacks: Overclocking Your Productivity

AND MILES TO CODE BEFORE I SLEEP

HOW TO HACK YOUR CIRCADIAN RHYTHM

By Merlin Mann & Danny O’Brien

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Illustration by Sara Huston

EVERYONE LOVES SLEEP. IT’S LIKE VIRTUAL reality without the dumb helmet. But if you’re the sort of person who hyper-focuses on challenging tasks, you probably like the idea of sleep more than the actual practice. Sleep good: just not sleep right now.

Not right now, when I’ve almost completely debugged my application. Not right now, when I’ve almost checked all these solder joints. Not right now, when I’m only three-sixteen hundredths of the way through ripping my entire DVD collection. ...

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