IWTL how to shut off my mind at night

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My mind is alive at night. I get awesome ideas, and feel like I do my best thinking then. I feel so motivated to get up and program, write, draw, anything. And quite frankly, that’s special for me; I’m not a very motivated person. If I had it my way, I would just stay up and live a life where my sleep schedule is 2am to 10am. Of course, this isn’t feasible. I have to get up for school at 6:30, meaning the latest I can sustainably go to bed is 10:30pm. That’s pretty much the exact time my mind starts to go off. It makes it hard to fall asleep, both physically because I feel so awake, and emotionally because I feel so inspired and it’s sad to have to leave that behind. Is there anything I can do to somehow shut off my mind at night and maybe reroute this energy into a place like the morning where it is useful? I’m extremely sluggish in the morning and it takes me a long time to get up, the exact opposite of night.

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TIL scientists have successfully created a process to genetically modify pigs to produce human-transplantable organs. The method edits the genetics of pig DNA to prevent our bodies from rejecting their organs. It would end transplant lists overnight. Human trials are starting.

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Genetically Engineering Pigs to Grow Organs for People

Scientists announce the birth of 37 pigs gene-edited to be better for human transplant.

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What do insanely wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about?

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I can answer this one. For some reason, I attract these people into my life. I don’t do anything super extraordinary. I am not famous. But I count many peoplewith ultra high net wealth among my close friends and I have spent more time than even I can believe with 8 different billionaires. This is not just meet-and-greet time. This is small group and even one-to-one time. I dated the daughter of one billionaire several decades ago. So I have gotten a peek into this life.
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YSK that if your phone mysteriously stops working, don’t try to get into your bank account.

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Biggest Scams People Actually Fell For

Sorry for the lack of details, I’m trying not to dox myself.

Long story short, someone convinced a cell phone carrier to port my phone number to a phone they owned without interacting with me. They then waited until I needed to pay bills, which based on the time of month was today. I signed in using 2 factor authentication in which they got the text message code instead of me. How they translated that code into access to my online bank account, I cannot explain, but neither could anyone at my bak or cell phone company, and I used to work for that bank, and before that, my cellphone company, and I can’t either. I couldn’t access my bills, because my cell phone stopped working, prompting me to think my sim card shit the bed, so I just used a different method. While I was paying my bills, some asshole siphoned off about a grand from my account. The bank is covering the thousand dollars and I am definitely losing my cellphone number, but it’s a minor inconvenience compared to actually losing a thousand dollars. Given my employment past, I feel like I should know better and I’m pretty ashamed of it, but both my bank and my cellphone company have said this has gotten really popular in the last few weeks so I wanted to bring attention to the problem.

TL;DR: if a banking related inconvenience seems like a perfect storm, stop what you’re doing before you give up too much info.

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