time to yourself zone

I don’t know how to break this habit, and part of me doesn’t even want to because the hours of midnight to 3am are so beautiful. The peace and quiet, the stillness, no alerts or notifications going off, everyone else is asleep, there is no demand on your time, the only thing demanding you is sleep which you put off for as long as possible to extend the sweet sweet stillness that is the time-to-yourself-zone.

It can’t continue though, the small amount of sleep i’m surviving on is going to impact my health at some point, it will catch up with me, and i know it. But i’m sure i’m not the only person that does this, in fact i know i’m not, because of all the memes around exactly what i’m talking about. There’s just something about this time of night where you don’t want it to end, honestly, it feels like freedom.

Blaming Claude is a valid excuse for my bedtime slowly approaching 4am lately. The addiction to learning all the different ways to build an app, or a website, or just to learn something new, is pretty much limitless. With no end in sight of things you can do with Claude, knowing when to close the terminal down is getting harder and harder. There you go, i’m already thinking of an app i could build for myself that monitors Claude usage, and sets some sort of restriction or control of usage on my mac, ffs, go to bed llama :)

Kept up with llamaword daily so far, even tonight when i almost hit the off button on my mac mini, i kept the discipline to open up a new markdown file and start typing. Glad i did, i think this site is going to be a good outlet of creative writing, and if it makes me do less scrolling or gaming (or anything else that doesn’t really benefit me in anyway) then it has succeeded. I don’t think i’ll share much from here on other sites, it is more for me, but there might be the odd crypto piece i write that i share on X, but who knows.