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How can I wake up earlier?

This ain’t just a tech blog. It’s a way to organize my life. One thing I’ve learned from my “blog every day” pledge is that the primary tool for life organization is daily routine. I don’t think mine is optimal, so today I’m re-thinking it.

There are four key numbers to my daily routine: wake, work, leave, sleep. Currently, they are:

wake  work  leave sleep
08:30 10:00 18:30 00:00

Here’s the routine visually:

current daily routine

What’s wrong with this routine?

I’m going to:

This gives me the key numbers:

wake  work  leave sleep
06:30 09:00 16:30 22:30

This can be represented visually:

new daily routine

What can computers do? What are the limits of mathematics? And just how busy can a busy beaver be? This year, I’m writing Busy Beavers, a unique interactive book on computability theory. You and I will take a practical and modern approach to answering these questions — or at least learning why some questions are unanswerable!

It’s only $19, and you can get 50% off if you find the discount code ... Not quite. Hackers use the console!

After months of secret toil, I and Andrew Carr released Everyday Data Science, a unique interactive online course! You’ll make the perfect glass of lemonade using Thompson sampling. You’ll lose weight with differential equations. And you might just qualify for the Olympics with a bit of statistics!

It’s $29, but you can get 50% off if you find the discount code ... Not quite. Hackers use the console!

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