The year I wrote every morning before the sun came up
Five hundred days of getting up at half five. What it actually did to the work, to my sleep, and to the way I think about discipline — including the parts nobody puts in the productivity posts.
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Writes here most weeks about mornings, notebooks and the small habits that turn out to matter. Still not a morning person, technically.
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The year I wrote every morning before the sun came up
Five hundred days of getting up at half five. What it actually did to the work, to my sleep, and to the way I think about discipline — including the parts nobody puts in the productivity posts.
Everything I killed before anything grew
A small flat, bad light, and eleven dead plants. The twelfth is thriving and I finally know why.
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