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No/reduced alcohol leads to increased productivity

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Now more importantly let’s look at the time saved. No code shipped on the evenings where drinking occurs (loss of 4 hours each night) and 1 day hangover on the Saturday feeling sorry for myself.

You're not gaining four hours each night because you're not drinking; you're gaining four hours each night because you're not going out.

When we launched our startup we took a vow of sobriety - no drinking booze until we get profitable. It took us 9 months, one of the most productive periods of my life to date.

Awesome

It's often said that the age of enlightenment started when Europe switched from drinking beer during the day to coffee.

(Beer was often drunk because it was safer than the untreated water supplies in cities)

To be fair, this guy drinks a lot. It seems like he's out drinking 3 out of 5 nights a week and 1 out of 2 nights a weekend which to me seems quite excessive.

I've been teetotal for 12 years - I'd say I'm getting steadily less productive as I get older (now 33) - so I'm wondering whether to try the opposite test.. As I get older, will drinking booze make me more productive?

This just in, no pot leads to less munchies. Here's Jim with the weather.

Let's not turn this place into Reddit.

Fair enough, I just couldn't resist it :)

No need to attack other websites…

There absolutely is a need to "attack" other websites, when you see one community that was once flourishing with great degrade into every other regular old internet comment board.

HN is a fantastic place with lots of very smart people. I would hate to see this place run down with stupid nonsensical comments, memes, and image replies.

I come here for the quality discussion, that's it. If that leaves, there's no point to HN.

Have you seen Reddit "discussions"?

Really? Not getting trashed is more productive? There's millions of people out there who drink a few glasses of wine on the weekends and don't have any productivity problems.

There's weak evidence that light drinking (fewer than 3 beers/day) is good for you, or at least not bad (though if you're like me you'll probably notice that you can't manage top-level coding while drunk). I wrote about this a few times in past years: http://graehl.org/tag/alcohol/

Completely agree what said in the post, it is also addiction and tiresome day makes one look for little bit chill in the mind. Beer definetly does it. Anyone has any thoughts on "rewarding yourself" other than one mentioned in the post are welcome

This is referred to by some as "going past the Ballmer peak."

Remember Windows ME? Yeah.

http://xkcd.com/323/

Everything in moderation including moderation.

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