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Improve Your Sleep (as a Developer) πŸ’€

Anna Buianova on March 19, 2020

In this post, I won't go into details why sleep is important because there is a lot of information about it already. What I would like to do instea...
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Patrick Tingen •

I try not to do mentally challenging things the last two hours or so before I go to bed. Otherwise my brain won't stop working and I'll never fall asleep. Further, what helps me a lot is just plain old reading a book. I use an ereader (or my oled-phone, no problem with the blue light apparantly) and I read fiction (currently Stephen King's The Institute, which is a fantastic one).

Also, since I try to lose some weight, I do more excercises; every evening I go out for a walk of approx 30-45 minutes, together with my wife. Very relaxing and I sleep better since I started doing it. And lost 6kg :)

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Anna Buianova •

I suppose I wouldn't be able to sleep well after reading Stephen King's books :D

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Patrick Tingen •

Haha, sometimes reality is much worse...

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Michael Tharrington •

Purrfect cover image.

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Andy Zhao (he/him) •

Limit Screen Usage Before Sleep

I find this the hardest part to do, but I've been doing what you recommended of "This way I read for 10-15 minutes and feel sleepy, even if the book is interesting" and it's been working well!

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Anna Buianova •

Yeah, taking small steps is the key. When I see "avoid screens for 3 hours before sleep", I know that this is not going to happen! At least in one day :)

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Anna Buianova •

Great idea, not drinking also improves the quality of life overall. It didn't come into my mind because I wasn't drinking on a regular basis in recent years anyway.

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Meat Boy •

Great advices. In my opinion exercises during the day are the most important for good sleep. Without training or just walk I am feeling tired even after 8 hours of sleep.

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Ben Halpern •

Really fantastic tips. I'm 100% sure that this resonates with my experiences.

Keep a Sleep Diary

This seems like something that could help close the loop in putting this to action.

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Aneeqa Khan •

I just hit the heart instantly after watching cover photo 😍

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Artur • • Edited

Isn't cola worse for health than coffee or tea? It is just curious, I'm coffee addict and I try to try other drinks.

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Anna Buianova •

I suppose "worse" can be defined differently. I know that cola contains less caffeine per ml than regular coffee (at least unless it's "cola energy" or smth like that). I think it can affect different people differently too, so we should pay attention to it.