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Here's an obscure life hack.
If (like me) you:
- Don’t like going to bed, due to it conflicting with keeping on doing things
- When in bed, wish you had something more engaging and enjoyable to do instead of just lying there waiting—for instance, playing a very compelling computer game until you get tired
- Do not in fact reliably get tired from playing a very compelling computer game
- Like puzzles
..then a solution that has worked surprisingly well for me before (and I wrote about previously) is having hard math puzzles handy to think about as I go to sleep. Somehow thinking about math at the bounds of my limited ability to imagine does make me sleepy. And is also quite compelling.
I haven’t done this for a while, I think due to disorganization and losing track of the puzzles I had, and not having a great source of new ones. But I have recently reinstated this in a nice format.
I think ideally you want this to involve no preparation at all at bed time, and no going on your computer. So you want a nice supply of the right kind of puzzles in [...]
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First published:
October 13th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aGRCdKzJquahKsfcX/sleep-puzzle-system-1
Linkpost URL:
https://worldspiritsockpuppet.substack.com/p/sleep-puzzle-system
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