And no, this is not about Patty Smith.

Night working times brought me so much joy and anxiety through times. Let me share some thoughts about this.

Once, the night was this place where everything happens. People used to tell me, when I was working more hours than I should, that nothing happens in a day… but I said most of my things happen in a night.

The night was about the silence, I guess. It’s quite the same (now I can understand that) as waking up earlier in the morning. It’s not actually the same because there’s less anger in the morning. I see myself in a clear mind mode, after a sleep time to process things and now I’m able to write and think better about it.

When working during nights I was attacking a problem, and I got this time constraint, since I had to sleep and get back to work during the morning. This also started as nights and not mornings because of the way we used to play with internet. It was cheaper to use internet after midnight. It was like a “start to produce” alarm.

Now I’m more of a morning person but I say that I could work as a night person and do that sometimes (mostly when NBA Season is happening).

The most important thing in my system is not about when I go to sleep but the amount of hours I do sleep. This is key now. So, I’m not in trouble if I go to sleep at 3am, if I’m able to wake up after 9am, at least. I have learned that I work in 90 minutes slots. So if I’m not sleeping 6 hours I must sleep no more than 4 hours and a half.

I have used some apps and manual controls to find this number. This number came to mind when I decided I was going to sleep 9+ hours during weekends. I got up very very bad, and started thinking why. That curiosity led me to find more about sleeping and understanding more about me.

Sleep is something I used to think about as “something that was taking me away from my projects”. Now I accept it makes me focus more and more, if I take good care of it.

— Daniel Wildt

It’s always a victory for me, when I don’t to fight my physiology and my needs.

— Daniel Wildt

P.S.: This post was an example of output requires input. Listening to a conversation got me started with the “because the night” topic. I was listening to Alain De Botton talking to Steve (Diary of a CEO). He was asked about what was keeping him awake at nights or something like that. That was the cue.

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