I wonder how much this differs from person to person. I tried correlating 2.5 years of data (when I got up from bed with my self-ratings of productivity for that day), and looking at the LOESS & cubic fits, it seems merely like getting up a bit after 8AM correlates with productivity but later is worse and earlier is much worse (albeit with limited sampling):
And it’s not hard to tell a non-causal or reverse-causation story: I can’t be very eager to wake up and get started on work if I’m willing to sleep in to 10AM, now can I...? So I dunno. Maybe it’s literally more time from simple sleep deprivation.
That said, I’ll have to remember to recheck this later; I’m trying out caffeine pills for causing earlier rising, so if earlier rising itself causes more productivity, there should be an attenuated effect from the caffeine.
I wonder how much this differs from person to person. I tried correlating 2.5 years of data (when I got up from bed with my self-ratings of productivity for that day), and looking at the LOESS & cubic fits, it seems merely like getting up a bit after 8AM correlates with productivity but later is worse and earlier is much worse (albeit with limited sampling):
And it’s not hard to tell a non-causal or reverse-causation story: I can’t be very eager to wake up and get started on work if I’m willing to sleep in to 10AM, now can I...? So I dunno. Maybe it’s literally more time from simple sleep deprivation.
That said, I’ll have to remember to recheck this later; I’m trying out caffeine pills for causing earlier rising, so if earlier rising itself causes more productivity, there should be an attenuated effect from the caffeine.
Haha nice graph, good luck.