# Revenge Bedtime Procrastination by Anne Helen Petersen - Culture Study

<https://kottke.org/21/10/revenge-bedtime-procrastination>

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## What Jamie wrote

I have never heard this term before, but it is an interesting read, and I’m pretty guilty myself of grabbing my phone at night after turning in. 

> Or you’re actually doing something you really like: reading for hours, playing a video game you actually enjoy, quilting in the quiet hours of the night, leafing through a new cookbook. It matters less what you’re doing and more that you’re doing it instead of what you’d planned to do: go to bed so as to sleep long enough to feel legitimately rested before you go through it all again. You’re **revenge bedtime procrastinating**.

I don't have social apps, but I have been known to scroll through my RSS feeds. Luckily they have an end.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT199: Weekly Thing #199 / Revolutions, Dopamine, Reconsolidation](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/199/), Notable

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