I have a chart I call "the Ballmer peak" which is the huge trough in earning that accompanied Ballmer's time at the helm.
I suspect it’s the same as the well-known “social lubricant” effect of alcohol, where it eases anxiety and uninhibits nervous people.
However, while I’ve noticed it gets me going it has the same deleterious effects as in social contexts: the code I end up writing is not as clever as I thought it was the night before.
No matter, had sex! I mean… got an MVP working that can be nurtured into a relationship… I mean product.
Somehow I can't replicate it for the years and I have a couple of projects in a dire need of that spirit insight.
sigh