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I know I've banged on about this sort of thing before, but as long as I'm getting confirmation bias, I'm sharing it. From Inc., and from way back in 2018:

    Why ‘Early to Bed, Early to Rise’ Is a Myth (and Night Owls Can Finally Rejoice)  
Waking up early isn’t the secret to success–focusing on your chronotype is what’s more important.

It's not a "myth." Franklin was trolling us.

Nearly everything in this world is structured to suit those who sleep early and wake up with the sun.

Otherwise known as "smug assholes."

This indoctrination of needing to be an early riser starts as a little kid with our parents harping on us to go to sleep.

Okay, wait a minute, here. Parents can be blamed for a lot of things, but this isn't one of them. Unless their kids are homeschooled, the parents are just accommodating the "nearly everything" suited for larks. And maybe trying to get an hour or two of peace in the evening, but who could blame them? And the kids learn the important life lesson of: the world's not going to change to suit you, so you have to change to suit the world.

Of course, that doesn't excuse my father always bursting into my room at 6am every school day and shouting, "Rise and shine!" I'd growl, "Pick one."

It’s centuries-old: Ben Franklin famously believed that “early to bed, early to rise” was ideal.

No, he did not. That was satire. Franklin believed in staying up late, drinking heavily, banging supermodels, and waking up with a hangover at noon.

We all have the same 24 hours in a day, but each of us are at our best at different times during that period.

I'm probably at my best when I'm asleep, but that's just me.

The days of needing to justify your late night habits or feel guilty about it are over.

No, they're not. We have to be made to feel guilty for whatever we're doing. You're sleeping wrong. You're eating wrong. You're doinking wrong. Only by making us feel guilty can they sell us stuff to assuage that guilt.

Religion figured this out millennia ago, and capitalism only caught on relatively recently.

Anyway, the article ends with three "tips" that I'd feel free to ignore, personally. I'm more concerned with the problems surrounding the emphasis on "productivity," but I expect nothing better from that source.