A while ago here on HN I compared meditation to debugging, a bit like setting breakpoints. Recently, a Promise-filled chunk of a code started throwing errors w

A while ago here on HN I compared meditation to debugging, a bit like setting breakpoints. Recently, a Promise-filled chunk of a code started throwing errors when I switched to Bluebird (instead of node's native Promises). I spent a good few hours figuring out what went wrong. Going back to native Promises, my code worked fine, but with Bluebird I got weird errors and stack traces. I eventually figured it out, and it turned out the error wasn't mission critical but would've probably caused problems down the line. So finding it was worth it, even if the debugging, in a way, caused the program to blow up in my face. Perhaps it's a bit like that. I believe regular meditation is unlikely to cause problems, but I am careful about, say, going to a week-long vipassana retreat because of various (thankfully not too terrible) mental health issues (and the same applies to hallucinogenic substances, among other things).