End morning supremacy
Summary
A night owl takes aim at society's obsession with early risers, arguing that "morning supremacy is capitalist culture." She wakes up between 10 a.m. and noon now, but used to wake at 2 p.m. and was her most creative then. The conversation spirals into sleep science (studies were conducted only on men, she claims, while women need 9 to 11 hours), workplace flexibility (her coworker negotiated an 11 to 7 schedule), and the capitalist conspiracy behind "the early bird gets the worm." Kareem agrees morning supremacy is misogynist. Let girls sleep. The real wisdom? Both birds can get the worm if we stop limiting resources and forcing everyone into the same schedule. She makes her case: the late afternoon chiller actually wins.
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So, what's your take? End morning supremacy. 100% agree. Morning is better, but you don't have to talk about it.
Why is this the schedule that we've just been given? I mean, you have to wake up. I know, but why? What time do you want to wake up? Like, why do we have to wake up at like like in the morning and start our day like in the morning? Like 30% of people are naturally night owls.
Are you a night owl? Yes.
So, what time do you wake up? It varies between like 10:00 a.m. and noon. I used to wake up at 2 p.m.
You used to wake up at 2:00 p.m. And I was the happiest person and I was so creative. And 30% of people have like a circadian rhythm where they simply cannot wake up early.
But it's the the minority of people, right? But imagine if those 30% of people were more productive. Well, I actually worked with someone who told the bosses. He was like, I I can't I don't wake up at 8:00. Oh my god. And so he worked from 11:00 to 7:00.
And how was his productivity and how was his creativity? It was great. I also don't think creative people tend to wake up early.
I wake up really early. I'm very creative. Okay. But do you like shove into people's face? Like I wake up at 6:00 a.m. and then I go to the gym and like I'm a early bird, but I'm also a night owl.
Oh my god. You do I need minimal sleep. I only need 5 to 6 hours of sleep a day. Okay. So all of these sleep studies where they say we only need 8 hours a day. They were all conducted on men. So like you can get away with 5 hours a night, but like actually women are supposed to get 9 to 11 hours.
I support women and they should have as much sleep. Morning supremacy is actually misogynist. Morning supremacy is misogynist. Let girls sleep.
Let girls sleep. Let girls sleep. I'm never waking up a girl again.
Morning supremacy is capitalist culture. Early bird gets the worm. Everybody can have the worm. No, but capitalism limits the amount of worms that are available and then they force the early bird to go get the worm and then all the other birds are left with no worms. That's the problem is the capitalism wants you to be an early bird. So they limit the amount of worms.
I can't fight capitalism. I can't. I'm too tired. I'm too tired. So, you're not an early bird?
No, I'm not. And you don't get the worm. I actually do think I get the worm. I actually think the person who's the most chill, like at the end of the day, gets the worm. So, not the early bird gets the worm, but the late afternoon chiller gets the worm.
We both get the worm. We're both eating. We both are eating. We're both getting the worm.