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No-one likes to hear this but it's true. Cut out caffeine in the afternoons (it has a ~6hr half-life in your system) and install F.lux or something to lower the colour temperature of your monitors.

(Anecdatum: When I want to stay up late, I turn off F.lux and it adds probably 2 hrs before I start feeling tired.)



Plenty of people know this, and do it, and still struggle. I limit myself to maximum of 2 coffees a day, no later than 3pm, and no phone/games after 10:00 and I still find myself lying in bed awake at 3am regularly


Because it's not enough to do one thing, you have to do all the things: exercise, go outdoors, socialize, live. It's like a chain: it only works when all the links are intact. A 99.99% chain is as good as a 1% chain.


Worth adding that there is great variability of the half-life of caffeine in different people, in part due to different phenotypes of the enzymes responsible for its metabolism (among other variables). For instance, I metabolize it slightly slower (if you can trust 23andMe SNP data enough for that kind of a prediction), so it could be even longer for me. iirc nicotine has also been shown to speed up caffeine's metabolism.


Night mode does absolutely nothing to me


Thanks for the F.lux recommendation


There is absolutely no proof flux or night mode works. Night mode is not a substitute for less screen time.




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