Modafinil has weak affinity for the dopamine transporter. Don't take advice from Dave Asprey, Tim Ferriss, or other pseudoscience practitioners. See a doctor if you have problems at work.
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Ask HN: How true is it that most founders are taking drugs like Modafanil?
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#52I tried modafinil and it wasn’t very helpful.
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#53I'm not going to use my real account. I do use Modafinil occasionally as a perk me up and it is easy to acquire. I use about 50mg. I do use it to complement my life and I find that it does make me a better person.
My days are hectic between full-time work, sideline hustle, having a child, housework, exercise and spending time with my partner. I do it to help me stay focused and bang out the necessary tasks that I need to keep my life in order. I try to get 7-8 hours of sleep and I do maintain a healthy diet. The only side effect that I have noticed is that if I use it too often I do feel my immune system get weaker.
Overall, I've had a positive experience with using Modafinil as a supplement.
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#54I’m a serial startup junkie and I am usually one of the first 20 employees.
About half of the startups I have worked at the founders were abusing Adderall. One company even offered it to developers. It provides an edge but the fallout is usually terrible. I won’t tolerate it anymore. It’s just too crazy.
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#55(Posting on throwaway for obvious reasons). I was on Adderall for mild ADHD for 10 months in 2016. Software Engineers in my late 20s. I found that I was not finishing any of my side projects. Was working (and still do) for a FAANG. Consulted a real doc i.e Psychiatrist in San Francisco and he diagnosed me with very mild ADHD Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) Apparently this is quite common in adults these day…
(Continued. HN is limiting my posts for whatever algo reason) My side-project procrastination was the main reason I decided to see a Psychiatrist. Before Adderall, I had about 8 different side-projects in various states of progress, with a couple hosted and launched, but I was doing nothing to market and grow them. Now, a couple of years later, I have successfully grown the 2 that were launched and were languishing,…
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Re: Ask HN: How true is it that most founders are taking drugs like Modafanil?
#56(Posting on throwaway for obvious reasons). I was on Adderall for mild ADHD for 10 months in 2016. Software Engineers in my late 20s. I found that I was not finishing any of my side projects. Was working (and still do) for a FAANG. Consulted a real doc i.e Psychiatrist in San Francisco and he diagnosed me with very mild ADHD Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) Apparently this is quite common in adults these day…
(Continued. HN is limiting my posts for whatever algo reason) My side-project procrastination was the main reason I decided to see a Psychiatrist. Before Adderall, I had about 8 different side-projects in various states of progress, with a couple hosted and launched, but I was doing nothing to market and grow them. Now, a couple of years later, I have successfully grown the 2 that were launched and were languishing,…
> LSD is only available on the "dark web" as far as I know, so you'll need to use TOR and Bitcoin. It's also shady and you have to purchase a "Tester Kit" (who knows if that tester kit is also legit?!). Don't do it.
That's a big load of FUD if I've ever heard it
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
(Continued. HN is limiting my posts for whatever algo reason) My side-project procrastination was the main reason I decided to see a Psychiatrist. Before Adderall, I had about 8 different side-projects in various states of progress, with a couple hosted and launched, but I was doing nothing to market and grow them. Now, a couple of years later, I have successfully grown the 2 that were launched and were languishing,…
> LSD is only available on the "dark web" as far as I know, so you'll need to use TOR and Bitcoin. It's also shady and you have to purchase a "Tester Kit" (who knows if that tester kit is also legit?!). Don't do it. That's a big load of FUD if I've ever heard it
As far as I know, there is just 1 swiss psychiatrist in the WHOLE WORLD, who is allowed to LEGALLY PRESCRIBE LSD
> VICE: You're the only person in the world with this permission to administer LSD for therapeutic treatment, right?
> Peter Gasser: Yes, correct. Interestingly, my friend Dr. Peter Oehen lives nearby and he does the same thing with MDMA. He got permission for MDMA treatment with compassionate use. And Dr. Torsten Passie [a psychiatrist in Germany] is trying to get permission to use Bromo-LSD for treating cluster headache, but he has not been able to get permission from the German authorities.
See "Meet the Only Doctor in the World Legally Allowed to Use LSD to Treat Patients" :====> https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ppxx97/meet-the-only-doct...
Now, prove your allegations of FUD.
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#58Re: Ask HN: How true is it that most founders are taking drugs like Modafanil?
#59(Posting on throwaway for obvious reasons). I was on Adderall for mild ADHD for 10 months in 2016. Software Engineers in my late 20s. I found that I was not finishing any of my side projects. Was working (and still do) for a FAANG. Consulted a real doc i.e Psychiatrist in San Francisco and he diagnosed me with very mild ADHD Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) Apparently this is quite common in adults these day…
(Continued. HN is limiting my posts for whatever algo reason) My side-project procrastination was the main reason I decided to see a Psychiatrist. Before Adderall, I had about 8 different side-projects in various states of progress, with a couple hosted and launched, but I was doing nothing to market and grow them. Now, a couple of years later, I have successfully grown the 2 that were launched and were languishing,…
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I'm still on 5 mg of Adderall and have not noticed any bad side-effects, with the exception that I wake up a couple of times at night, and as long as I don't open my eyes when I'm aware that I just woke up, I promptly go back to sleep. I take 3 to 5 days "off" once every other week, like my Doc advised me to, in order to prevent my tolerance from increasing, and needing more mgs / day.
I do have a couple of friends, in their early 20s, who were diagnosed with ADHD recently, and are on higher doses. They both work for startups in SF, 1 at BitFlyer and another at some SaaS startup in the Workshop Cafe building. They both say that they need it to "get in the zone" and get the gruntwork in startup world done.
I am not aware of widespread use of stimulants like Modafinil or Adderall or Ritalin in the startup world here in SF. But like others have stated, it's somewhat of a tabboo to speak about usage, because, in 1 sense, it "exposes" you and your collegues will never look at you the same way as they'll think you are "cheating" using a "performance enhancer" drug, which in some ways, are what Modafinil , Adderall, Ritalin and other stimulants are.
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#60Is there any human who can read binary code 01011010010110101101
without take psychedelic??
steve jobs, bill gates, elon mask, john lennon ,thom yorke , genious everybody took lsd, everybodys junkie.
lsd make human robotize that push our technolody towards future