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In all my years as a software developer the morning hours were just absolutely perfect for me to get the hard stuff out of the way. I reserve afternoons for the drudge work, but in the morning I have much better cognitive ability.

Better yet, if you work from home you can wake up at 6am, start your workload early and you have the entire afternoon off for whatever you need, it's a sweet system!

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I do exactly the same thing. I get half of my work done before anyone shows up, and just cruise the rest of day or leave early. I don't play the game of staying late to make it look like I'm working hard. I let my work speak for itself, which is easy because I feel great in the morning and there is no one to bother me, so the quality speaks for itself.

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Exact opposite here - more or less severe brain fog until the sun sets. Then I can start getting things done.

I've had "brain fog" in small spells over the years, particularly when my depression went unmanaged. I can't imagine having it every day, I'd get nothing done and hate myself. It sounds like you have more self-awareness than I did though.

> I can't imagine having it every day, I'd get nothing done and hate myself.

Yup. You'd do exactly that. You learn to live with it (while putting down fire after fire that lack of productivity causes). Source: personal experience.

This is exactly my experience, recently I have sometimes worked 9-5 got nothing done and gone home feeling like shit for being so unproductive. Then, to make up for it, I would find myself working some late nights and always made up for the lack of outputs. I now just start late and work late, which actually means I get more free time because I don't need to make up for anything.

As in interesting point, when I was working 9-5, I noticed that most people at work were incredibly unproductive all day so maybe it is somewhat a social construct also. When alone at night without distractions, without the context of people slacking off, I find it far easier to get focused and I don't just talk nonsense to anyone nearby.

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