The Case for Designing Work Around Circadian Rhythms
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Adi, when do you do your best work? You know, I generally have A lot of projects moving forward at once. I'm tending to fires all day. It's often at night after hours when I carve out time and do what's probably my best focused work.
I don't recommend this because it eats into my so-called real life, but I do find it necessary. Okay, so it sounds like you and I might be the same. I tend to sleep in, I wake up, I grab a coffee, and then I hit my my stride mid-morning and I can work through the afternoon and also really, really late into the night if I need to. So this means that you and I probably have similar circadian rhythms.
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