Sleep Coach ChatGPT 🫡 💤

🌟 High-functioning human hack // Sleep – I think we all have been taught that "early bird gets the worm" but it's not for everyone. In fact, our CTO Githire B. Wahome has to reteach me often that tech worms get the bird and it's okay to do when you're compelled. Most engineers follow the "maker's, manager's schedule" coined by Paul Graham from YC where your normal workday is driven by the Bear Chronotype so meetings (or manager's schedule) are during the day and actual work (maker's schedule) is when no one is bothering you.

This photo represents a big win for me (and it's only 6:30a!).

Thanks to CPO Stefan P. Friend's sleep experiments, I learned about polyphasic sleep – which started as a poor attempt to reason my stupid sleep schedule, but it ended up being the thing I needed to allow myself to listen to my body. I am NOT someone who can wake up on the first alarm or even 5 (lol whoops), so this was a huge win to be able to wake up at 4a, no alarm.


⮑ What are chronotypes?
Your body has a natural sleep chronotype (google it! take the quiz) and fighting against your natural sleep cycles can freaking deplete your mental, emotional, physical capacity before the day has even started. The Bear Chronotype is what most people are typed as which is why the working world typically operates on the 8a-6p schedule. It's a bear because bears have similar inclinations to sleep, eat breakfast, do most of their "work," get tired after they eat around noon, etc. The concept is from Dr. Michael Breus with Sleep Doctor.

⮑ What worked for me?
Well, I've been testing a bunch of stuff, including ChatGPT as my sleep coach.
1. Learn about different sleep patterns. Figure out which one sounds most like your natural tendencies.
2. Take the Chronotype Test to see if you're right. It will tell you at the end when the best time to workout, take meetings, eat breakfast, when to drink coffee, and even when to have s*x. (is that allowed to be said here?)
3. Have ChatGPT create the best schedule for you based on your chronotype. ItI ran a whole experiment on this for weeks if you're interested.

4. Remember that you're human. Let yourself sleep in. Listen to your body. I tried fighting it for so long and let my meetings force me out of bed. As soon as I stopped, this photo happened.