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For health reasons, my sleep is consistently bad. I can still get around 2-3 hours of work done in the morning and another 2-3 in the evening but I have a lot of time where I'm just tired and don't want to do anything too intellectually stimulating.

Any recommendations on good filler activities?

I just moved to Berkeley so fairly often I can go to a meetup of some sort in the evening. But the mornings are harder to fill. When I get myself to, walking around works fairly well (I'm finding it a lot harder now than when I was in Japan since in Japan I just didn't buy food in advance so I'd have to go outside around 11 am). This isn't really enough alone to cover the 3-4 hours between doing work and taking my nap though.

Activities that I've considered:

-reading: if I get hooked on the right book, this definitely works. I'm struggling to start reading books though.

-video games: these would likely work but I'm nervous about getting addicted and not getting anything done

3Measure5y

The first thing that comes to mind is some sort of exercise. Valuable on its own and might also improve sleep.

yeah I'm gonna try more of this. hard part is just getting myself to go outside but that's getting easier as I do it more

3Raj Thimmiah5y

I'll try this. Need to find some addicting audiobooks, would make it pretty trivial to spend much of morning outside.