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Not even stuff like fish oil, vitamin D, piracetam, gingko, stuff like that?
Nope. Good diet, plenty of exercise. :-)
"We Brits believe that alcohol has magical powers – that it causes us to shed our inhibitions and become aggressive, promiscuous, disorderly and even violent. But we are wrong. In high doses, alcohol impairs our reaction times, muscle control, co-ordination, short-term memory, perceptual field, cognitive abilities and ability to speak clearly. But it does not cause us selectively to break specific social rules. It do…
Alcoholism is a frigging nightmare for everyone involved, irrespective of culture, and here you are regurgitating some PR nonsense written by an alcohol industry pundit.
Go spend some time at the emergency room of any major hospital and see all the PAP's (Pissed And Punched), the MVA's involving alcohol, the people getting their stomachs pumped. They deal with this every weekend. Long term, look up Korsakoff's syndrome.
You don't get this mess with, say, coffee or tea.
Just saying.
I have personally programmed a lot while tipsy (never drunk, I am not sure I would want to read that code in the morning) and it allows me to get over the humps of writing that utility function that needed to be written but I was putting off, it allows me to just start putting code down in vim without really worrying whether or not it is good enough... Let me quantify good enough a little better. I am a perfectionist…
My first thought is that you're opening yourself up to litigation. I drink wine and occasionally code with a glass of wine - the easy stuff, and I only commit the next morning. However, making strategic decisions, dealing with human issues and sending external communications is a bad idea. Someone I'm close is a former CEO and majority shareholder of business that generated 8 figure yearly revenue. His advice to me w…
You wouldn't sign an email with "Also, I'm drunk right now" but that's effectively what you've done here. Kudos for honesty, but you've now put a time stamp that says, roughly, "I acknowledge being under the influence on Nov 27 2011, and further, this allowed me to behave differently than I normally would." Anyone you've interacted with today can go back to it. It's not just that you might be making bad decisions - y…
Although mmaunder has only mentioned holding off on emails due to drink, there are many other reasons why one might author an email one evening, but not send it in the morning (e.g. the need to check a fact with someone who has already gone to bed or is otherwise unavailable). That mmaunder was drunk is not an conclusion that can inevitably and reliably be drawn from such a timestamp.
A general piece of advice I've found helpful is "Write code like you're going to have to fix critical bugs while drunk at 2 in the morning."
My first thought is that you're opening yourself up to litigation. I drink wine and occasionally code with a glass of wine - the easy stuff, and I only commit the next morning. However, making strategic decisions, dealing with human issues and sending external communications is a bad idea. Someone I'm close is a former CEO and majority shareholder of business that generated 8 figure yearly revenue. His advice to me w…
You wouldn't sign an email with "Also, I'm drunk right now" but that's effectively what you've done here. Kudos for honesty, but you've now put a time stamp that says, roughly, "I acknowledge being under the influence on Nov 27 2011, and further, this allowed me to behave differently than I normally would." Anyone you've interacted with today can go back to it. It's not just that you might be making bad decisions - y…
Barring being in a fanatical teetotaler culture, why does it matter that there's a record of him writing an email while moderately drunk? Business gets done in bars, lounges and karaoke places all over the world.
It's not like he made a spontaneous marriage proposal or signed up for the military. It was just a damned email, and a satisfactory one at that.