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Daniel Ek's Daily Routine
Give your first 4 hours to family, exercise and thinking. Spotify's Daniel Ek wakes at 6:30 AM and doesn't start work until 10:30 AM.
Bryan Johnson's Daily Routine
Go to bed early and the morning becomes yours. Bryan Johnson is in bed by 8:30 PM, up at 5:00 AM without an alarm and exercising by 5:30 AM.
Steve Jobs's Daily Routine
Skip the listicles and get the sourced day. Steve Jobs worked from 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM when he returned to Apple in 1997, Walter Isaacson reports.
Paul Graham's Daily Routine
Get a maker's schedule inside a manager's day. Paul Graham did business until dinner, then programmed from dinner until about 3:00 AM.
Thomas Edison's Daily Routine
Keep learning after a full day's work. Thomas Edison was at his lab by 8:00 AM, home for tea at 6:00 PM, then studied until 11:00 PM.
Brian Chesky's Daily Routine
Keep your best hours for your best ideas. Airbnb's Brian Chesky starts slow, books nothing before 10:00 AM and saves 9:30 PM onward for creative work.
Brian Armstrong's Daily Routine
Build a side project without quitting your job. Brian Armstrong worked a day job until 7:00 PM, then built Coinbase from 8:00 PM to midnight.
David Heinemeier Hansson's Daily Routine
Do great work in 40 hours a week and still sleep in. David Heinemeier Hansson wakes without an alarm at 8:30 AM and starts work at 11:00 AM.
Andy Grove's Daily Routine
Audit a real day before you fix your calendar. Intel's Andy Grove logged one of his own, from 8:00 AM to 6:15 PM, meeting by meeting.
Demis Hassabis's Daily Routine
Have dinner with your family and still get quiet hours for hard problems. Demis Hassabis starts a second workday at 10:00 PM and peaks around 1:00 AM.
Jack Dorsey's Daily Routine
Give each weekday one kind of work and switch less. Jack Dorsey woke at 5:00 AM to meditate, walked 5 miles to work and ate once a day.
Jason Fried's Daily Routine
Give work 8 hours and keep the other 16 for sleep and life. Jason Fried sleeps from 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM and caps his week at 40 hours.
Jeff Bezos's Daily Routine
Make fewer, better decisions. Jeff Bezos keeps his mornings slow, takes no meeting before 10:00 AM and holds his hardest meetings before lunch.
Mark Cuban's Daily Routine
Cut the meetings and there's time to play every day. Mark Cuban works almost entirely by email and plays an hour of basketball each morning.
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