Another piece of alleged universal wisdom where one person mistakes their own personal experience in their own personal domain for a universal truth.
Suppose I go to bed at some time before midnight, having set my alarm for a "drop dead" time of 06:30. Suppose now I wake at 05:30. Do I proactively switch off the alarm and rise?
What about if I wake at 05:00? Or 04:30? Or 02:00?
Where is the cut-off? Where is the wisdom that solves all my problems, enabling me not to have to make any decisions?
I'm really tired of people telling me what to do and how to run my life based on their "epiphany" about their pico-universe, ignoring the immense and fantastic diversity of life outside their own experience.
Average sleep-cycle is apparently 90 minutes. I'd consider getting up up to an hour before the wake-up time based on that.
> Where is the wisdom that solves all my problems, enabling me not to have to make any decisions?
You have high expectations of the Blog-o-sphere, it seems.
> I'm really tired of people telling me what to do
Clearly! Although perhaps it'd have been more appropriate to just quote:
> I'm really tired
Anyway, I'm going to experiment with what he said in the blog post. I am probably guilty of thinking that I'm going to be considerably more rested if I spend another 30 minutes in bed beyond when I naturally woke up, and that's probably not true. A disruptive thought, perhaps.
Here's a suggestion: wake up, look at the clock. Now make a decision about whether it's time to get up, then take action based on that.
This is new? This is news? This is helpful? This is of deep interest?
None of the above - it was a waste of time.
But it's not just this one thing. I see so many people intent on sharing their personal revelations that it's now impossible to find genuine insights that are more widely applicable than that one person's experience. This is the age of crowd-sourced "wisdom", where everyone thinks their own discoveries will apply universally. Anecdote over data, experience over research.
However, I am going to learn something from it. There's a lesson that I'm taking away for my own personal growth and edification. I'll share it here with you in case you want to learn from it as well: some stuff on HN (and other sites) is a complete waste of time. Be ruthless about what you read - you only have one life to spend. Time spent cannot be regained.
I agree with you that this is not HN worthy. However, I think you're taking the wrong approach to stuff like this. Obviously the best thing to do is not read it. However, as others have pointed out these are recipes. You'll need to do your own tweaking, testing, changing, and perhaps even rewrite most of it. This is how you get started, not where you jump off.
>So I still have to wake, look at the clock, make a decision about whether it's time to get up, then take action based on that.
Yes, no magic unicorns and fairies spreading pixie dust to wake you up at just the right moment, I'm afraid.
The indecipherable to you message of the story is: don't go back to sleep if you happen to wake up shortly before the alarm clock. Just wake up.
Now, if you woke yourself up at 3:00, as you ask in your previous comment, that doesn't fall on the "shortly" period before a 6:30 way, so by all means go back to sleep. I mean, Oh, those hard decisions...
>But it's not just this one thing. I see so many people intent on sharing their personal revelations that it's now impossible to find genuine insights that are more widely applicable than that one person's experience. This is the age of crowd-sourced "wisdom", where everyone thinks their own discoveries will apply universally. Anecdote over data, experience over research.
I think that what you write above ONLY APPLIES TO YOU. Perhaps you should do some more research into the matter, instead of shoving your personal anecdotes on to us.
> The indecipherable to you message of the story is: don't go back to sleep if you happen to wake up shortly before the alarm clock. Just wake up.
Yes, I actually got that. Of course, it took reading the whole article to realize that it was telling me that, so I'm left wondering why it was posted to HN.
>> But it's not just this one thing. I see so many people intent on sharing their personal revelations that it's now impossible to find genuine insights that are more widely applicable than that one person's experience. This is the age of crowd-sourced "wisdom", where everyone thinks their own discoveries will apply universally. Anecdote over data, experience over research.
> I think that what you write above ONLY APPLIES TO YOU. Perhaps you should do some more research into the matter, instead of shoving your personal anecdotes on to us.
OK, so I'll start my research. Has this blog post taught you anything? Was this worth the time you spent reading it? I'll go ask a few more people, and if I get statistically significant results I might post about it.
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Another piece of alleged universal wisdom where one person mistakes their own personal experience in their own personal domain for a universal truth.
Suppose I go to bed at some time before midnight, having set my alarm for a "drop dead" time of 06:30. Suppose now I wake at 05:30. Do I proactively switch off the alarm and rise?
What about if I wake at 05:00? Or 04:30? Or 02:00?
Where is the cut-off? Where is the wisdom that solves all my problems, enabling me not to have to make any decisions?
I'm really tired of people telling me what to do and how to run my life based on their "epiphany" about their pico-universe, ignoring the immense and fantastic diversity of life outside their own experience.
> Where is the cut-off?
Average sleep-cycle is apparently 90 minutes. I'd consider getting up up to an hour before the wake-up time based on that.
> Where is the wisdom that solves all my problems, enabling me not to have to make any decisions?
You have high expectations of the Blog-o-sphere, it seems.
> I'm really tired of people telling me what to do
Clearly! Although perhaps it'd have been more appropriate to just quote:
> I'm really tired
Anyway, I'm going to experiment with what he said in the blog post. I am probably guilty of thinking that I'm going to be considerably more rested if I spend another 30 minutes in bed beyond when I naturally woke up, and that's probably not true. A disruptive thought, perhaps.
>What about if I wake at 05:00? Or 04:30? Or 02:00?
Then go back to sleep, dummy. Does he have to spell it out for you?
>Where is the wisdom that solves all my problems, enabling me not to have to make any decisions?
That's called being dead. Until then try to take advice for what it is: a recipe that you can try and adjust to taste.
So this post amounts to say:
Here's a suggestion: wake up, look at the clock. Now make a decision about whether it's time to get up, then take action based on that.
This is new? This is news? This is helpful? This is of deep interest?
None of the above - it was a waste of time.
But it's not just this one thing. I see so many people intent on sharing their personal revelations that it's now impossible to find genuine insights that are more widely applicable than that one person's experience. This is the age of crowd-sourced "wisdom", where everyone thinks their own discoveries will apply universally. Anecdote over data, experience over research.
However, I am going to learn something from it. There's a lesson that I'm taking away for my own personal growth and edification. I'll share it here with you in case you want to learn from it as well: some stuff on HN (and other sites) is a complete waste of time. Be ruthless about what you read - you only have one life to spend. Time spent cannot be regained.
Edited to remove some snark and tidy up.
I agree with you that this is not HN worthy. However, I think you're taking the wrong approach to stuff like this. Obviously the best thing to do is not read it. However, as others have pointed out these are recipes. You'll need to do your own tweaking, testing, changing, and perhaps even rewrite most of it. This is how you get started, not where you jump off.
>So I still have to wake, look at the clock, make a decision about whether it's time to get up, then take action based on that.
Yes, no magic unicorns and fairies spreading pixie dust to wake you up at just the right moment, I'm afraid.
The indecipherable to you message of the story is: don't go back to sleep if you happen to wake up shortly before the alarm clock. Just wake up.
Now, if you woke yourself up at 3:00, as you ask in your previous comment, that doesn't fall on the "shortly" period before a 6:30 way, so by all means go back to sleep. I mean, Oh, those hard decisions...
>But it's not just this one thing. I see so many people intent on sharing their personal revelations that it's now impossible to find genuine insights that are more widely applicable than that one person's experience. This is the age of crowd-sourced "wisdom", where everyone thinks their own discoveries will apply universally. Anecdote over data, experience over research.
I think that what you write above ONLY APPLIES TO YOU. Perhaps you should do some more research into the matter, instead of shoving your personal anecdotes on to us.
> The indecipherable to you message of the story is: don't go back to sleep if you happen to wake up shortly before the alarm clock. Just wake up.
Yes, I actually got that. Of course, it took reading the whole article to realize that it was telling me that, so I'm left wondering why it was posted to HN.
>> But it's not just this one thing. I see so many people intent on sharing their personal revelations that it's now impossible to find genuine insights that are more widely applicable than that one person's experience. This is the age of crowd-sourced "wisdom", where everyone thinks their own discoveries will apply universally. Anecdote over data, experience over research.
> I think that what you write above ONLY APPLIES TO YOU. Perhaps you should do some more research into the matter, instead of shoving your personal anecdotes on to us.
OK, so I'll start my research. Has this blog post taught you anything? Was this worth the time you spent reading it? I'll go ask a few more people, and if I get statistically significant results I might post about it.