Ask HN: Are you more productive at late night?
I cant do any work during the day and once evening comes I get productive. Why so? I can't find a lot of things online for some reason
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Yes. By far. Some of it is due to the nature of creative work that requires large blocks of uninterrupted time. Most people don’t realize how much a 2 min conversion can knock us out of creative flow. When I am writing or coding it’s hard to have people around that want to interact. At the same time there is a creative burst that comes from collaboration so it’s a balance. I have learned what work benefits from which setting but it’s still something I am working on.
I used to enjoy working until about 3AM, and sleeping til noon. I definitely got the majority of my core productive work done in the hours between midnight and 3.
As I get older, it becomes less and less feasible though. I'm usually pretty zonked by midnight now, so I do most of my productive work in the evening.
As I get older, it becomes less and less feasible though. I'm usually pretty zonked by midnight now, so I do most of my productive work in the evening.