You reach peak productivity after everyone else has gone to bed.
Role model:
Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, who once wrote that “most people overeat 100%, and oversleep 100%, because they like it. That extra 100% makes them unhealthy and inefficient.”
Tip:
Take a filament from Edison’s bulb and start to use sleep (or lack thereof) strategically. In The 24-Hour Genius, attorney and author Eric Epstein recommends completely forgoing sleep several times a month. “There’s a loss of efficiency when you have to stop work midstream,” Epstein says. “With an all-nighter, you can compress a whole phase of a project into a single work session.”
How to be most effective on Twitter:
Scheduled tweets are your friend. Wait until more of your audience is awake.
Got 15 minutes to spare?
Take a nap! Insufficient overall sleep will make you less responsive and more easily distracted, says Duke–National University of Singapore cognitive neuroscientist Michael Chee.
Killer app combo:
Gmail extension Right Inbox lets you schedule emails for the next day. Buffer does the same for your social media updates. More apps for the Night Owl >>