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I sometimes take CBD but it’s hard to tell if it helps.

I’ve taken a THC tablet before and it does work but I wake up with a bit of a weed hangover. It’s also not something that I’d want to do daily.

I’ll have to research TAC, never heard of it.

Have you ever tried Magtein?

I stopped taking fish oil a while ago but worth adding back in.

Why do you think Aleve is helping?

I do 35 minutes of heavy weight training and 40 minutes of cardio.

Never tried slow release. That’s not a bad idea.

Interesting how there’s a lot of sleep trouble on HN. Here’s mine, curious if anyone has thoughts.

For over a year now I’ve been averaging around 5.9 hours of sleep. Usually I’m up at 5am and can’t fall back asleep. Compounding this, bad nights I wake at 2 and it takes an hour to get back to sleep. Even then I’m up before 6.

So, two problems: always wake up early and often wake in the middle of the night for an hour.

I can get my brain to spin up at a good level if I get six hours. If I get 5 hours the day is mostly ruined.

My Oura ring data doesn’t suggest sleep apnea and my wife says I don’t snore. I’m not waking up super fresh - so it’s not like I’m rested after six hours. I used to sleep just fine so I don’t think I have the genetic mutation that makes you not need 8 hours. I just can’t sleep much more than six hours lately.

I’ve tried all the usual things; last meal at 4:30, exercise in morning, consistent bed time of 10pm, no devices after 9, cool room, no alcohol, black out curtains, etc. I’ve tried every supplement you can think of. Phenibut will prevent 2am wake ups but even with phenibut I can’t get more than 6.5 hours. You also shouldn’t take that more than 2-3 times a week.

I’m not sure what to try next. I’d love to get back to 7-8 hours though.

Such a good series.

The three finger unpinch on a phone is miserable

In what universe is an employee getting preferred? Or do you mean, be an investor instead of an employee?

That’s really cool. Appreciate you sharing.

I co-founded, and bootstrapped, a VR company [1] back in 2016. We launched three games, got some funding by HTC, but weren't able to raise venture. I keep meaning to do one of those "10 things I learned" sort of posts.

[1]https://www.RLTYCHK.co

No? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3575093/

The rise of NAFLD is pretty crazy. Took doctors by surprise about a decade ago. “What do you mean you don’t drink? Look at your liver!”

I didn’t realize this was a thing! I’m generally able to do this too, especially when meditating. It started after trying psychedelics in college, which probably ‘activated’ something in my brain that said “you can make the carpet swirl”. It’s sort of like looking at a Magic Eye photo. I just tried to do it now, but having just woke up, I don’t think I can concentrate enough to do it.

How early did your parents start you on meditation?

I built a forum around 2001 for people in the state of Maine who loved cars. I seeded it with friends, I put fliers on interesting cars I found around the state, hosted meet ups, etc. It took a ton of effort to get that fly wheel to spin, but I made a few hundred dollars a month in ads from local business (car dealers, mechanics). Tons of fun, met great people and set me on a course that has served me to this day. I was a bit early for hyper niche communities though :)

Creating a better Reddit has been a brain storm side project I’ve been working on for years. The Internet needs it now more than ever. But after my $100k bet on VR I’m now more deliberate.

Anyway, this kid spending ten weeks on his side project is pulled out of a different era. Such experiments may have yielded fruit a decade or two ago.

Can you talk more about that? What do the quant funds do with this data?

That's the nature of large groups of people though.

If the outlier opinions have merit, shouldn't there be a forum for their expression?

No, I was being serious. You have some fair points but I still think the ecosystem here is one of the most healthy.

The reason most the web has been neutered is why Hacker News is so great.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20032259

This thread is why Hacker News is one of the best sites online today.

I love learning a phrase for the obscure preferences that my wife always makes fun of.

Of course she also makes fun of my obscure phrases.

This seems to indicate a winner-takes-all hierarchy emerging within the sexual market place. As the data in this article shows, fewer men are having sex than women. That would indicate a group of men have multiple female partners while a large chunk of men remain unemployed living with their parents. They’ve been selected out of the sexual market place. I don’t have time right now to dig up sources, but throughout history this has been the norm.

I agree with that very much. It's hard not to think this is a byproduct of global corporate capitalism and all these other problems stem from that.

I actually think there is a big spin by certain housing developers to promote this as a housing issue.

Mental health / substance can cause homelessness. Homelessness can cause mental health / substance. It’s a shit cycle either way, but the one certainty is we are not addressing either in a meaningful way.

This is not as much a housing issue as it is a mental health and substance abuse issue.

See https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-07/homeless...

An N of 6 study showing it doesnt just knock you out: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2211560

Some quick googling offers an interesting count point to my fear:

https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/6/1768/3737867

Trazodone seems like a might big hammer for this problem. Do you plan to take it forever? I’d assume that removing it will cause withdrawal and a reversion to your previous insomnia. Or did your doctor suggest a plan of taking it for X months and then taper off? While the idea of a pill to fix this problem sounds really appealing to me, taking an SARI is not without risk.

Thank you!! This times one million.

The two years running a startup destroyed my sleep. I’ve spent the last 1.5 years trying to fix it.

I’ve had an Oura ring for almost a year and I rarely get more than 6 hours of total sleep per night. 5 hours is frequent. 7 hours is the most rare treat.

I don’t have anxiety. I don’t feel overly stressed. I love the work I’m doing. Life is pretty good. Yet most nights, I’m up at 2am and it takes an hour to go back to sleep. Then I’m up around 6am and that’s that. I never set an alarm; I could sleep until 7 or 8 if I wanted to.

Blue light glasses. No food after 4:30pm. Workouts every day in the morning.

Phenibut is the only guarantee that I’ll get decent sleep (6.5 hours). This doesn’t knock you out and my Oura data shows I’m getting all sleep stages. I wake up feeling good to great. But I limit that 2-3 times per week.

Meditation does help a bit.

I’m going to go in for a sleep study. I am determined to fix this because it really decreases quality of life. Plus, as you said, the research shows what a huge long term impact this has. I am very dedicated and focused on my health and longevity, it’s annoying how much I am failing at one of the most important parts.

A wild monkbent appears!