The Secret to Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Early Morning Person

Re:The Secret to Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Early Mor... by m0zg on Saturday March 16, 2019 @04:27PM (#19410066)

I run my own LLC, and my own working hours are 2PM (-ish) to 2AM (I get up at 10:30-11AM). Don't get frightened, I don't continuously work for these 12 hours, there's between 6 and 9 hours of working time in there, which I know because I track how much time I spend and on what. This works great for me. If I get up early and start working, my whole day will be ruined and nothing of value will be done. Tested many times. If I get up early and don't start working until my normal working hours, I _might_ be able to get something done that day. I'm very protective of my schedule, and have a very understanding wife (who appreciates not having to work).

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Re:The Secret to Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Early Mor... by Mizza on Saturday March 16, 2019 @04:39PM (#19410131)

Sounds perfect. Can I ask what you do?

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Re:The Secret to Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Early Mor... by m0zg on Saturday March 16, 2019 @05:07PM (#19410295)

Currently? Bootstrapping a product in computer vision space, by spending half the time helping 2 other companies with their deep learning efforts, and the other half on my own R&D. I've been in the fortunate situation that there's far more consulting work than I'm willing to take (and man do I charge a lot), so that part is booked months in advance. Product efforts are progressing nicely, too. I might be looking into hiring someone to help on both of those things in the foreseeable future.

I don't know if it's just the network effects or my preconceived notions, but the whole "business" thing turned out to be not as hard as I thought. I work out of my man cave and have a rack full of quad-GPU machines in the garage (because fuck cloud GPU pricing). I spend about a day and a half per week in my customers' offices (and I charge my hourly rate for commute too). Everything else, I don't even have to leave the house. If I don't feel like working on any given day, I just don't. Today is one of those days.

I now think this is how high-skill CS is supposed to work. Offices are bullshit. You can get easily twice as much done with a little self-discipline if you work remotely, and work will be of higher quality, because you _can actually focus_.

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Re:The Secret to Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Early Mor... by noir_lord on Saturday March 16, 2019 @05:52PM (#19410538)

It’s easy because your are in a high demand field that requires skill.

As someone who was around for the first dot com boom you (if you aren’t) should be banking cash/paying down debt as much as possible.

When I contracted on a (after all taxes etc), one for me, one for future me basis and it paid off.

That said it’s a nice problem to have :)

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Re:The Secret to Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Early Mor... by m0zg on Saturday March 16, 2019 @07:35PM (#19411132)

I don't have any debt, and I don't really have to work anymore. Short of a nuclear holocaust, I'll be fine.

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