I groggily open my eyes. My wrist is buzzing me awake. 5:30am. It is so much better than being woken up by sound. A buzzing on your wrist is much less jarring. That is why I sleep with my smartwatch on. I also like the data that gets collected on my sleeping patterns. It allows me to optimize my sleep. Jumping out of bed, I start deep breathing and swinging my arms around to get blood flowing.
I walk into the bathroom, while maintaining my breathing. I turn on the shower and immediately hop in. I fight the urge to tense up my entire body and to stop breathing as the water hits my chest. As I start getting used to it, I turn around and the water hits my back. Another shock to the system.
I step out of the shower, skin tingling. Ever since I started taking cold showers every morning, I have been feeling more energized and productive in the morning. Cold showers help with resilience to all discomforts, in any situation. It also helps you focus. I read that they did studies on this.
I step into the kitchen and start preparing coffee. When it’s finished, I pour a mug, adding grass-fed, unsalted butter and a tablespoon of Brain Octane Oil. Breakfast is served. Bulletproof Coffee energizes me and keeps me satiated until lunch. It’s also better for your health.
Being fully ready to go to work, I sit down on my Zabuton cushion, and queue Headspace. I meditate fifteen minutes every day. This helps me stay on task the rest of the day and not snap at my stupid coworkers. I have logged over 400 minutes of meditation! With a clear mind, I leave the house to go to work. When I get to my bus-stop, I immediately whip out my phone and continue reading my book. I am currently reading a book about monetizing your digital business. I never leave a moment idle while I wait for the bus. This way, I maximize my productive reading time and knowledge uptake.
7:00am. I arrive at Emoji2B. Emoji2B started out as our founder’s passion project. Working for Google, he found that words were inadequate to express the joys and frustrations of his job. He started making his own emojis to message to his colleagues. His colleagues loved it, and wanted him to make more of them. Knowing that each business had its own culture and faced its own unique ups and downs, he sensed a business opportunity. That was two years ago. Today, there are just over one-hundred of us working to make people more zany and fun, one company at a time.
I open up my laptop and read hacker news. After half an hour, I take out my headphones. Time to enter Hermit mode.
I don my headphones and play my standard techno beats on repeat. I put my phone in do not disturb mode, and get to work. This is the most productive time of my day. For two hours, I do not check my phone at all and get so much stuff done. My watch buzzes. I got a message. I read it, and get back to work. Right now, I am a hermit.
9:30am. I take off my headphones. I just got so much done. I walk around the office, chatting with the early-birds. Most people at Emoji2B do not get in until after 10am.
Not sure how we arrived at this topic, but Brad can not believe that I never go buy groceries. I try to explain to him that it makes more sense to do all your shopping off of Amazon, so you never have to spend any time travelling to and from the store. “But what about fruits and vegetables?” I told him that they are unnecessary. I buy multivitamins off of Amazon as well, and those fulfill my micronutrient requirements instead of fruit. I fail to understand why he is so shocked by this: we live in the 21st century. Why would I not take advantage of all the modern conveniences that this affords me?
10:30am. Time for the daily stand-up. Members of my team update each other. I stretch to counteract all of the morning’s sitting, and sit back down at my computer. I answer e-mails, and write a few more lines of code. I hit compile on my code, and get up for lunch.
I am ravenous. For the past hour, I have been feeling faint due to hunger. But I did not need to eat. My bulletproof coffee was enough. I open a bottle of Soylent for lunch. Lunch is over in under ten minutes. Perfect.
I hop on one of Emoji2B’s treadmill desks for 45 minutes. This is how I avoid afternoon grogginess.
On my way to my regular desk, I fall into a discussion with one of my co-workers on a technical matter for an hour. So unproductive.
I take out my laptop to read TechCrunch for an hour. I answer some e-mails, do more work, and my workday is done.
I head outside my office and start reading my book on my phone as I wait for the bus. I get on the bus, and keep reading until my stop.
Walking into the gym, I start looking through my phone to find my exercise playlist. After getting changed and a short warm-up, I jump right into the workout of the day. I follow the different exercises that my app told me to do in a circuit. It’s very intense and difficult, with short rests punctuating periods of frenetic movement. This is HIIT, or high intensity interval training. This technique is the most effective and time efficient way to exercise. When I finish going through the circuit five times, I stretch and cool down.
For dinner, I go to Chipotle. It is fast and relatively healthy. Sometimes, I wish I knew how to cook, but I realize that cooking would not be the best use of my time, as I am not an expert chef.
I finally go home, tired after a long day of focused activity. I shower, then find four TED talks to watch at 2x speed. When I first started watching talks this way, it was very hard to follow. Eventually, I got used to it. I would never want to waste my time watching videos any slower.
After the TED talks, I unwind from my day by watching an hour-long episode of a TV show. It only takes me half an hour with my hack. I brush my teeth, check Hacker News one last time, and go to sleep.