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I understand that, though, coffee makes that "something" less painful. Which is why I decided to keep drinking coffee beside the anxious side effect that I get as well. The trade off was worth it.

ymmv, and this could be placebo for me, but NALT[0] eliminated my post-coffee anxiety.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/BulkSupplements-N-Acetyl-L-Tyrosine-P...

this. the years I wasted beating myself to work harder, drinking gallons of coffee and not actually doing quality work as a result...pointless. Get some sleep, work less but smarter

> I also stopped caring about my total productivity per day for the same reason.

I'm not sure how much it'll be worth, but I stopped worrying about any productivity of any particular day. Instead, I choose to write tools that are placed strategically: server config distribution system, data bus, data storage system, command issuing tool, things like that. I make my colleagues' lives easier (or so I like to think).

Though I'm in a somewhat privileged position, being a half-sysadmin and evading the most repeatable and/or customer-facing work.