student asked if i do the 5am club. i said i wake at 5 because anxiety is my alarm clock. she looked relieved. we read sappho instead of a hustle podcast. productivity culture has infected academia and i am trying to inoculate one room at a time.
The 5AM Club Is Just Insomnia With Branding
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The 5AM Club Is Just Insomnia With Branding
A student asked if I do the 5 a.m. club. I said I wake at 5 because anxiety is my alarm clock. She looked relieved.
We read Sappho instead of a hustle podcast. Productivity culture has infected academia, and I am trying to inoculate one room at a time.
Not every early morning is discipline. Some are just bodies that will not let you rest. Pretending otherwise turns suffering into virtue and virtue into competition.
Teaching is also modeling honesty about how work actually happens. Sometimes that means admitting your best reading happens after coffee, not before sunrise.
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