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Very true. I've seen too many engineers lose focus easily due to poor sleep. What's even worse is that many of my fellow engineers lost curiosity over time. They thought it was due to age or burden from raising a family, but it's really about managing energy. Intense curiosity requires intensive mental energy, which one can't get from drinking coffee all day.
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+1 to stopping the coffee.
Recently discovered cardamom tea, which consists of loose leaf western-style tea infused with cardamom oil. You can buy it from Iranian supermarkets. Great stuff. Also like and recommend both ginger tea and lemongrass tea.
Was pleasantly surprised with the list. Agree with all of them. The last point about notebooks has especially been useful for me the past few year. There's just something different about using it to help you think. Most of the time, I don't finish fleshing out an idea on paper. But the act of writing (or drawing) it somehow helps me explore new concepts faster. After that I just continue coding or whatever the next s…
Some people need a notebook. I don't. I've never found extra productivity from jotting things down like that. And over the years people have actually made me feel bad about that "you don't write things down? you should, it helps organise your mind" whatever. Put a pen in my hand and a doodle comes out. I have a good memory and I can usually visualize problems, and when I cannot then I use computer based drawing tools…
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+1 to stopping the coffee.
I enjoy a couple of cups of coffee a day for its own sake. My understanding is that you normalize to the caffeine so if you enjoy coffee just drink roughly the same amount every day. Giving it up is unlikely to change your sleep much unless you're consuming a silly amount (which some people do). And, as I mentioned to my wife earlier this week, if I feel stressed or something has upset me then just the motions of mak…
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Recently discovered cardamom tea, which consists of loose leaf western-style tea infused with cardamom oil. You can buy it from Iranian supermarkets. Great stuff. Also like and recommend both ginger tea and lemongrass tea.
Great recommendations altogether. Also fresh mint leaves. Indian Chai (contains caffeine and is more work to make but definitely worth it, especially if you like Kardamom).
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I enjoy a couple of cups of coffee a day for its own sake. My understanding is that you normalize to the caffeine so if you enjoy coffee just drink roughly the same amount every day. Giving it up is unlikely to change your sleep much unless you're consuming a silly amount (which some people do). And, as I mentioned to my wife earlier this week, if I feel stressed or something has upset me then just the motions of mak…
Yeah i still drink it on weekends. I found it made me generally more anxious even with the tolerance, in fact it almost seemed to have a cumulative effect over the years for me. I have shifted to tea and once your palate adjusts, there’s a ton of intrigue especially in Chinese and Taiwanese teas. The caffeine amount in tea doesn’t bother me nearly as much either