I usually read sci-fi / fantasy, but I’ve come to recognize that certain authors are dense, and Tolkien is one of them. Trying to read too much of Tolkien at once is like trying to eat too much rich food; you’ve got to take a break from time to time. All the annotations in the above book make the text even more dense, but it’s still interesting stuff, like the mythological origins of Gandalf, or the tiny changes Tolkien made from early editions of the book. So I want to read this, it’s not like I’m forcing myself to read some godawful textbook, but I think when I’m reading it at night, my brain gets to a point where it just goes “Ah fuck it,” and I start to nod off.
Also pretty good for this: Isaac Asimov, or Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August.
Sometimes I’ll find a longform article, but those can be a bit too engaging sometimes.
I have a lot of success with reading about a topic on something like Wikipedia where if I get to the end of a page and want to continue reading, there’s loads of links to follow to related stuff.
Oh snap, you’re me! I just wrote about having the same routine!
As to “sleep hygiene” stuff, I find that a lot of well-intentioned tools and advice simply don’t work for me. That’s why I value hearing what creative solutions the fellow members of my neurotribe come up with. It’s also validating to find that others ended up organically following the same routines as I do.
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That’s an interesting idea. What do you read in general?
I usually read sci-fi / fantasy, but I’ve come to recognize that certain authors are dense, and Tolkien is one of them. Trying to read too much of Tolkien at once is like trying to eat too much rich food; you’ve got to take a break from time to time. All the annotations in the above book make the text even more dense, but it’s still interesting stuff, like the mythological origins of Gandalf, or the tiny changes Tolkien made from early editions of the book. So I want to read this, it’s not like I’m forcing myself to read some godawful textbook, but I think when I’m reading it at night, my brain gets to a point where it just goes “Ah fuck it,” and I start to nod off.
Also pretty good for this: Isaac Asimov, or Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August.
Sometimes I’ll find a longform article, but those can be a bit too engaging sometimes.
I have a lot of success with reading about a topic on something like Wikipedia where if I get to the end of a page and want to continue reading, there’s loads of links to follow to related stuff.
Oh snap, you’re me! I just wrote about having the same routine!
As to “sleep hygiene” stuff, I find that a lot of well-intentioned tools and advice simply don’t work for me. That’s why I value hearing what creative solutions the fellow members of my neurotribe come up with. It’s also validating to find that others ended up organically following the same routines as I do.