Biohacks of Technical Managers, Rated
There seems to be a new interview every few weeks about how the tech brother spends his morning. We really want to study the habits of successful people for life hacks – after all, you are looking at the house ” How I work . “ But how effective are these biohacks? Here’s a quick rundown:
Waking up very early
Verdict: abnormal
Why: You need to sleep, damn it! If you are working or partying late into the night, don’t try to wake up at 5, 4, or 3 in the morning. Without a good night’s sleep, you’re just kidding yourself. Waking up early and working a ton is unproductive, it’s stupid.
There is an exception to this rule: if you are an early riser and always go to bed on time, you are allowed to wake up whenever you want. Jeff Bezos says he wakes up “early,” but he also prioritizes getting eight hours of sleep a night. This is a hack.
Starvation
Verdict: May be a hack, but it depends.
Why: There is already a word for not eating when you are hungry because you want the lack of food to take its toll on your body, and that is diet . Intermittent fasting can be one way to control your calorie intake. In this sense, it is a hack .
But fasting can also easily spiral out of control, becoming a form of eating disorder. It is also over-advertised for its mental benefits. Any dieter can tell you that not eating for a while can lead to a focused, slightly euphoric feeling that starts to manifest somewhere between hungry and hungry.
Jack Dorsey also says that he only eats once a day, which is not as crazy as it sounds. If you skip breakfast and postpone lunch and then eat a big late lunch, you may not be hungry for dinner. There is nothing wrong with that: three meals a day is a convenient diet, but this is not a law of nature or anything like that.
Creamy coffee
Verdict: this is not a hack, but just breakfast
Why: Buttered coffee is designed to give you energy and focus, and help you get through to dinner without hunger pangs by skipping breakfast. It probably does both, but not with any special biohacking magic.
Depending on how heavy your hand is using the butter, Bulletproof coffee can easily contain 400+ calories . Being coffee, it is also full of caffeine. So, can a 400-calorie caffeinated drink keep you feeling full and awake? Yeah.
Super short workouts
Verdict: hack, but only if you don’t have a better option
Why: Short workouts are still workouts. Jack Dorsey loves seven-minute variety, and seven minutes a day is better than nothing.
According to the latest guidelines from health.gov, we should all exercise at least 150 minutes per week, or 75 minutes if the exercise is intense. Divide the week into seven days and you will meet this requirement using just 11 minutes a day – two seven-minute sessions a day will add up to 98 minutes per week of overwork.
But you can do great things in the gym if you can train your butt for an hour several times a week. So we might endorse short workouts as a way to get past limited time, but if you’re a CTO and have some down the drain, you can probably get away from your desk a little more.