Blue vs Warm light

Doesn't matter when I sleep, I want to be waking up by 5:30 am in the morning. A day in a week, I get tempted not to sleep. To build, to do something, to have those 8 hours for myself. Recently, I have been trying to avoid that temptation. I am already stretching myself; not having sleep will only make it worse. Rather, if I can sleep excited and wake up excited. That's what I want. 

To wake up around 5.30, I shall sleep by 11.30 or 12 at max. I have in the past slept at 12 and consistently woken up at 4/4:30 max. This was in 2017-18. That was a different era. I was in my early 20s. That's when I had to start wearing precision glasses. I had started gaining a few extra kilos. I still have bits and pieces of that in me. Some days I am still sleeping around 12:30/1. And waking up by 5.30 and running the day without any naps. Wow! I believe 4h sleep is enough. If I get to take two or one short naps in the day. Naps can't happen every day. I used to be insanely good at taking naps. I used to turn off like a switch, and boom, in 10 minutes - I used to wake up refreshed. For every 4/4:30 hours nights, I shall have naps in the day. 

The title mentioned lights, and I am here talking about sleep. Sleep and light are connected so much. I have realized or experienced this firsthand in the last 2 days. There is a standard LED bulb with a lot of blue, cold radiance. And there is one more bulb with warm settings. I have started to turn on the warm light for the last 2 days. And I have started feeling the difference in the morning. I have been waking up before my alarm, and I feel well rested. I used to have night shift on my phone. I have gone back to the same settings this morning. On every device. 

If I am good at one thing in life, that is recognising patterns, picking signals. I have a good subconscious operating system. In context, I must try to process everything in the main thread, or else let the other half process it. It isn't just about lights. It is about everything in life. I pick signals early. I wait passively for them to accumulate. And as soon as they touch the thresholds, I act. I act without any baggage, with an ability to entertain peak humiliations. And being able to say - Yeah, I was wrong. Probably, we all pick signals, but we don't listen, and we barely act. Sunk cost makes us sink.  If sunk cost to be minimized, don't just go with the flow. But one cannot always remove sunk costs. One way or another, one is going to run into it. The world can't stop. It has to keep moving. A complete halt momentarily is possible, but not always. Then go with the flow, but keep your senses open. And let them decide if the flow is taking the right direction. As soon as sense starts questioning, get your paddles out, listen, and slow down. As soon as there is enough signal. Jump off or double down. Sunk cost, it's just gonna compound. It is up to the subject if they are okay with compounding. 

I was trying out co-building with Priyanshu. But had to stop after 4/5 days of execution. I felt like I could be better off experimenting by myself. I could move really fast alone! You know. Maybe it is me. 

Treasure stays deep in the sea. Explorer on the surface barely collects plastic bottles these days. For more valuation exploration needs to go deep. Do I really need to explain why I am saying this? Oh man, sometimes I write and feel, I could be writing much better. Structuring everything much better, making it more reader-friendly. But these are like my journal entries. These are my journal entries. Unless I am okay with selling a book or planning to sell a book, why should I make it easy?  Don't challenges make the world beautiful? Or is it the love for the challenge? Speaking of love, why do you think I have been sleeping late? 

See ya!