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The 30 hour day feeling resonates. If I have no external schedule or I'm just living as I see fit, I end up gravitating to 3am bed, ~12pm wake sorta schedule. The only real problem is that it's functionally incompatible with jobs and many other services, even fully remote

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Live on East Coast, take a west coast remote job. 9am Meeting is noon.

I did this for several years. It works great

Lol, brilliant. I tried the exact opposite of this and got fired for essentially not being awake at 9am EST while I live in PST

Same. For me it's more like 4-6 am bed.

I also work best in long bursts of up to 12 hours, with days of full rest in between bursts. I don't do well with a five days a week 9-5 work schedule.

And timeline urgency / time pressure tends to do well at putting me into deep flow state, whereas it can be hard for me to get into flow state for work otherwise.

I'd love to find myself a situation in which I can work like you describe and have it now be side-eyed by normies. That's exactly how I want to live/work, and I've never really found a place that will let me do it, so I just keep rolling through these completely incompatible arrangements that eventually kick me out.

> And timeline urgency / time pressure tends to do well at putting me into deep flow state, whereas it can be hard for me to get into flow state for work otherwise.

As long as there's a tangible reason the deadline is urgent, then I feel the same way. If it's just an arbitrary demand then I don't respond like they'd hope. My brain knows when something is truly urgent and when it's not.

I also wish I could find a situation like that. My tendencies have caused me a lot of problems in my career. It seems that most companies really prefer the 9-5 worker who does predictable, incrementally reviewable amounts of work every day at a steady pace instead of showing up with a big amount of work done once a week or so and doing who knows what the rest of the time.

I noticed that my bedtime drifts because after 11PM it's finally quiet enough to do anything productive. Before that it's just impossible to work. After I started living alone, I finally could go to sleep at a sane time since I didn't have to wait hours for everyone else to calm down enough to let me think.

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