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Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates

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Re: Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates

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I own a coffee roaster with eshop and over 100 corporate customers. I love coffee. At the same time, I believe none of the "studies" claiming health benefits of it. One only has to study what it does to your brain to make a sound conclusion. (or read some of those studies and look at the bogus methods they often use) It also affects sleep in a negative way, with poor sleep being at the root of most health problems in…

thanks for this interesting read. the sceptic in me is not convinced of the Starbucks correlation with studies, is this a well known fact?

No it's not an established fact at all as far as I know - but it's in interesting suggestion for a study (I happen to be data-scientist).

My point here was that the coffee became a huge business sometime at the end of the 90 and big corporations were built on the back of it, not only Starbucks ... this wasn't so before 90s ... it was in the early 2000s that numerous positive studies started to pop out and the perception started to shift ... for example, in the early 2000 the central Europe market was suddenly dominated by German instant coffee brands and I remember reading an article citing a study that states that coffee is healthy but only instant one, the ground roasted causes cancer because of the roasting.

This is just my observation. But I would also like to add that today everyone demands a "study" to prove a point and it seems to me that it has effect of people delegating their own observational skills and logic to 3-rd party, often untrustworthy and often merely journalist articles citing a study. You need to employ both observation and studies that you examined for trustworthiness.

Re: Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates

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What are the drawbacks? Nobody seems to talk about drawbacks.

Too much personal introspection and autobiographical thinking. Tangential thoughts not relevant to the task at hand. Lack of linear focus. That kind of thing.

does not sound like 'micro' dosing to me

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Balzac famously (apocryphally, perhaps?) known for drinking 50 cups of coffee a day! This part resonated with me: > When you have reached the point of consuming this kind of coffee, then become exhausted and decide that you really must have more, even though you make it of the finest ingredients and take it perfectly fresh, you will fall into horrible sweats, suffer feebleness of the nerves, and undergo episodes of s…

I styled/modeled roast.io pricing page after Balzac and a few other famous coffee drinkers: https://www.roast.io/pricing

Creative! Good work.

Re: Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates

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Presumably middle east or north/eastern africa. Then again I'm sure there are plenty of SV hipster types who might be big on it. "forget microdosing, khat is the new path to rockstar programming flow states"

Is anyone afraid that microdosing might become the next must, if you want to be competitive in the programming fields of industry?

For something to be a must, it has to have a real constant effect for the majority of people. Thankfully microdosing doesn't fall into that category.

Re: Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates

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Microdosing is mostly hype. I know many people who've tried microdosing. Does it give you a 5% edge? Maybe... but sometimes it distracts and subtracts 5%. It is not NZT from the movie Limitless, despite media hype. As a productivity drug, amphetamines far outclass psychedelics.

> As a productivity drug, amphetamines far outclass psychedelics. They're not mutually exclusive, I'm sure there's significant overlap between the adderall and microdosing crowds.

If you mean the substituted amphetamines which have serotonergic activity (DOB and such) then sure, amphetamines and psychedelics aren't mutually exclusive, but those are very rare drugs especially in the modern day.

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Some writer and artists would use the following: Hold a key in one of your hands and hang your hand down by your side while you let yourself fall asleep while sitting in a chair (honestly this first part sounds the most difficult). When you fall asleep—or rather the trance-like borderlands between awake and sleep— you should naturally drop the key (or whatever metallic, noise-making object) which should spring you ba…

I think the quote is from Salvador Dali.

Dali is definitely one of the people I remember talking about the method, but I've heard it elsewhere as well.

Re: Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates

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Ha, if true that would confirm Balzac's claim: > Coffee is a great power in my life; I have observed its effects on an epic scale. Coffee roasts your insides. Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring. From "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee, 1830, http://blissbat.net/balzac.html

Balzac, you're breaking my heart. How dare you...

I love coffee. Thanks for sharing.

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