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Home roast, decent grinder, and a press pot... Doesn't get much better... While I do drink coffee for the caffeine (and experience withdrawal symptoms without it), a substantial motivation is that I simply enjoy the flavor of a properly made cup of coffee.
When I stopped drinking caffeinated coffee, I lost my taste for coffee, but developed a great interest in tea.
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So then all things being equal, you're better off with the coffee. You get to enjoy the delicious taste of coffee and yet be 'normal' like a non-coffee drinker afterwards :)
But all other things are not equal. When I drank coffee I had to constantly manage my addiction or I'd get headaches. Now that I have no addiction I get fewer headaches.
Good to see some agreement/support on this :D
I love the tracking of productivity idea. It's interesting, I also frequently use coffee to 'concentrate', but a little differently than you. I'll have tea or sometimes coffee in the morning (one cup) and if I'm not sleep deprived, that's it. If I need to work or focus on a task in the afternoon, I'll get a large coffee, clear my area of all distractions, get comfortable and try and crank through for as long as it ta…
I love the tracking of productivity idea. It's interesting, I also frequently use coffee to 'concentrate', but a little differently than you. I'll have tea or sometimes coffee in the morning (one cup) and if I'm not sleep deprived, that's it. If I need to work or focus on a task in the afternoon, I'll get a large coffee, clear my area of all distractions, get comfortable and try and crank through for as long as it ta…
The productivity tracking he's talking about sounds like the Pomodoro technique. Check here for more: http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/
Re: Pomodoro technique
I don’t use the pomodoro technique as written, however I was tracking 60 minute periods and switched to 25 minutes after reading that this was the ‘best practice’ discovered by the pomodoro people.
Coffee gives me about 15-20 minutes high, then its a crash mid-work so need more coffee. I never concentrate better and if I'm sleepy I remain sleepy but hyper.
I wake up perfectly fine without it. It is the routine that wakes you up not the coffee.
Also it tastes like shit.
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I did check the link, but I thought that you were only referencing the benefits. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding.
I would have reacted the same way if someone had claimed health benefits for e.g. Coca Cola. :-) It just haven't reached the public conscious yet that coffee weirdly seems to be such a good lifestyle choice.
This probably doesn't actually work. But it still saved me the time of making a meal.
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Seriously? $7 for 4 oz. tea is really not bad. Even rather expensive high end green teas are much cheaper than (say) fine wines.
I bet most people don't drink two bottles of fine wine every day ;-)
Good tea is cheap, you typically just mail-order a good quantity at a time and keep it in an airtight tin. The samplers from Adagio are ~1 oz., and a great way to try out several for a few dollars each.