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Ask HN: Does microdosing psilocybin help you code? How?

Tim Ferris has written about it a few times

https://tim.blog/2015/03/21/james-fadiman/

https://tim.blog/2015/09/14/are-psychedelic-drugs-the-next-m...

yes and paul stamets on a joe rogan podcast says SV coders are massively using microdosing of LSD as a competitive advantage, that's why I wanted to ask here, as I'm sure someone can chime in on either being around this happening or is doing it.

Anything but proper diet and exercise. Inject it all directly into your bloodstream =)

Seems awfully niche. Maybe r/Nootropics would be a better place to ask.

Schedule 1 drugs should be avoided, even where legal. You can probably get better results from something like Modafinil anyway.

Don't take drugs, except for these drugs.

Schedule 4 is way safer than Schedule 1 in general.

Yeah because pot is the same thing as heroin.

I can't believe that we still trust the DEA when they perpetuate complete falsehoods like "pot has no medical applications... except for all these doctors saying otherwise and all these patients that switched to it and are much better"

Fair enough on schedule 1's flaws.

I meant that it hasn't really been properly tested by enough people. And there are things like ecstasy which have some fatal strands because production isn't regulated. The legal drugs will at least have much, much higher quality control and safety checks.

Other drugs may give you Parkinson's or something 20 years later but it's just not tested at all on something like psilocybin.

Might help when you need some creativity. Although Edison's method of nodding off and waking up might do the trick. For production code... I'm not sure.

/IANA./

getting logic into your brain like you have sum or multiplication of digits, helps.and the way to do this is by coding. other things beside logic may help but less. for example internet,books,food,beverages,music,drugs...

at some point it will be like drawing, in N dimensions.

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