> This feels like an incredibly elaborate way to say that he's a morning person.

If you read the whole article there’s a section dedicated to evening people.

Regardless, the advice is about avoiding emotionally draining stimuli until you’ve accomplished what you want to do for the day.

You can wake up at noon and still do that. The root problem is that people are consuming large amounts of negative news and social media early in the day and draining their mental capacity before they even get started on what they want to do.

I see this all the time in, for example, junior hires. Some of them will tell me they’re exhausted or they have no time to do anything outside of their 40 hour workweek. When I ask some questions to figure out where their time is going every day, it always comes down to spending so much time on phones and watching Netflix that their time and energy are fully consumed before they have a chance at anything else.

The advice in the article is good and it’s not about being a morning person.