Balsari-Palsule believes that workplaces can play a huge role in dictating whether introverts feel pressured to act extroverted. Now they could pave the way for greater acceptance of nocturnal people, and for introverts at large.
The night owls I spoke with are banking on it. When I asked them what they want from the future, many of them described a similar vision—one of even deeper isolation, further from the clamor and unrest of other people. Young, the network engineer, told me that he's "looking to maybe become more introverted … thinking of moving into a tiny home in the middle of nowhere."
And Herman, the machinist who has lived nocturnally for more than 30 years, dreams of a time when he can quit his night shift, his one remaining tie to society. "I can see just living in a tiny little ranch somewhere—somewhere in Montana with nobody around. There's my dream retirement," he told me. "Peace and quiet and dark."
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