Confession: I never had a single work-related sleepless night or ever pulled an all-nighter during my career incl. PhD. Don’t sacrifice your health. Sleep is a superpower — your brain on 8hrs of sleep is a lot smarter than your brain on sleep deprivation. Don’t listen to people who tell you to chronically sacrifice sleep for work. Sacrificing sleep for your kids/family is a different story.
Sarvesh Gharat@SarveshGharat12
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Replying to @npparikh
I doubt all those things are really possible. Infact I believe, you are not doing a good PhD unless you have sleepless nights. Definitely just working on your thesis is possible if you follow a 9-6 schedule, but a good PhD which involves exploring, colabs, etc needs extra hours
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help i can’t even sleep 8 hours when i try to
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Same. 7 hours and I am happy and rested.
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Replying to @appenz @natanielruizg
Same here since I had a kid, although Whoop tells me to sleep much more.

May 14, 2026 · 4:12 PM UTC

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Replying to @tkipf @appenz
and before you were hitting the required time right? my sleep looks similar to yours :) - except i don't have a kid hahaha
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