currently fasting for ramadan so had to do this over the last week to get a meal in before the sun rises:
1. set your alarm when you want / need to be up, regardless of when you went to bed.
2. actually get out of bed.
3. stay up as long as possible.
eventually you *will* need to sleep, and it will end up being earlier than youāre used to.
4. repeat.
first few days will be challenging, and may potentially be assisted by naps if youāre *really* sleep deprived (i try to avoid them bc naps are to my sleep what ice cream is to a childās dinner but that isnāt everyone) but eventually your body will naturally get tired when you need it to even if you could stay up longer, and at that point itās just about maintaining the habit.
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if Iām a bit tired and doors open at 11-12 at night I like to 30-45 min of sleep in before heading out. Set a timer and donāt oversleep if you can help it!
Stick to Red Bull/yerba mate if you absolutely need stay up, donāt do stimulants theyāre expensive and make people annoying, bring a friend with you who has more stamina and can energize you
Apr 30, 2024
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Your body will hate you but your brain will feel oh so superior to those who have succumbed to sleep
Jan 27, 2024
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Bedtime fluctuates but the goal is 'in bed' by 10:30 and asleep by 12a. The long term goal would be something like a rigid 11p-7a.
This has been a hugely positive shift from all the years I slept ~2am-10am. All I was really doing past 10 was consuming media. I get much more done now.
Mar 1, 2024
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Mar 23, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason itās still standing is bc itās unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isnāt just charting the attention economy but also attempting to āsolveā it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024