I’ve found that early mornings are the best when I need to write while late nights are better for programming. It may be that running on deadline-induced adrenaline and caffeine pushes me to turn off my internal editor and write, while I need the low-energy calm of a late night to stay focused on my code and only my code.

Same happens to, and I realized that I am wasting my life procrastinating during working hours and being able to work only during deadline-induced adrenaline, as you formulated it.

Now I am thinking to get some profet help, since others on HN mentioned that this is possible.

This is why I simply sleep during the day: if you wake up and appear after everyone else starts "closing up shop" (around 3-4pm usually) then there is no way for them to fill your head with their "crap"; the secret is that it is absolutely imperative that you go to sleep before they start waking up (which has been a bit hard recently as I am working with someone now who lives on the other coast and wakes up early enough that they can sometimes catch me before I commit to going to sleep at 6 or 7).

That is a great way of framing it. My own sleep habits are definitely sustained by my thoughts around night time, relaxation, solitude, etc. I’m not sure why, thanks to your comment, I’m just now realizing that the early morning hours are a good approximation of being awake at 3am.

Works for me during summer and if I go into the office early. Doesn't work during winter (thought of getting up in the cold is a strong deterrence) and doesn't work if I don't go into the office (the kids hear me and decide to get up early).

At night, I have no distractions and if it's cold I'm already rugged up.