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Yeah, but I wonder if it affects your health in the long term?

One should sleep whenever he/she's tired.

Anyone who has the luxury to choose what to do with his/her time is extremely successful or at least happy.

And also the quality of sleeping is more important than the quantity. No point sleeping 2 more hours if you feel rested and rejuvenated after only 4-5 hours. And again, lucky is the one who can get to the "office" at 4 AM or 1PM whenever he/she is awake and feel like working...

I think what matters most in that respect is probably whether you get enough sleep, rather than when you get that sleep.

I slept at very normal times, but nowhere near enough, while launching my first start-up on the side of a full time job, and that definitely took its toll.

True, how much matters a lot more than when. But is sleeping for 8 hours a day at unusual times worse than sleeping 8 hours a day at normal times?

After you've done it long enough, there are no unusual times to sleep. Most months I will sleep at least once for each of the 24 hours.

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