ON DAYS I DON’T go into the office, my alarm goes off at 8:59 a.m. I’m up within 30 seconds and on Slack, albeit horizontally, opening emails and getting oriented for my workday, which formally starts at nine. A lull in the action comes maybe 30 minutes later, so I’ll roll out of bed, brush my teeth, and begin resembling a civilized person.
Arguably it’s an improvement. At my last job, my alarm went off nine minutes before a daily 9:30 a.m. on-camera brainstorm that required me to prepare notes. A friend recently balked at my tendency to sleep until minutes before the workday kicks off, shaken by the fact that the first things my brain registers each morning
