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Does the following part mean they're a morning person, or is it orthogonal?

> “Every day is a new beginning. You wake up and at some point in the day, someone shoots up a school, or something’s going on with your family, or you wake up and eat the wrong thing. And then you’re done. Emotionally cooked. Literally and emotionally poisoned.

> Every day I wake up and can get to the studio before something has shattered my existence, I am grateful. And I can do things.

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anal_reactor 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, this means he's a morning person. I feel great in the evening because I'm done with all the shit that happened during the day, now it's finally "me-time". There's nothing like a sudden wave of energy at 3AM. In the mornings I always think about all the unpleasant stuff that is going to happen during the day.

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safety1st 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah it sounds like he's just terminally online. The whole idea here did not resonate with me at all. If I have serious work to do I isolate myself and do it until it's done or I'm out of steam.

If the day "poisons" me that means I should have been more disciplined - the correct answer to consuming news media, for instance, is always to consume less of it. If someone is consistently poisoning my day the answer is to reduce contact with them.

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cocacola1 4 days ago | parent [-]

That’s what he says, though, at least in the context of Antonoff. He gets to the studio and gets to work without being sidetracked or letting other things sidetrack him. The “poison” is just the distractions to avoid.

	▲	safety1st 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		The part about accepting when your focus is shot is good, while I'm not convinced it's gone for the entire day, you can definitely get stuck outside of your "flow state" for a couple hours and you may just have to go do other stuff when it happens. I think what triggered me was this line - "no early morning notifications - no sudden alert about Putin’s latest military actions." Unless you're a journalist covering the Ukraine war, you really shouldn't have real time notifications informing you about Putin's military actions, and if you do, that's productivity problem #1. I'm just saying this guy paints a picture of a constantly interrupted life and from my experience the first line of defense is to reduce the interruptions, with measures that are much more aggressive than the average modern person's.