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I just drink coffee at the morning and probably, after a nap. I never drink more than 2 cups a day. How are you habits?

monkeydust 7y ago
Been hooked on V60 drip for my morning coffee. Really gets the flavour out of the coffee. Worth watching a few vids on youtube to get the technique right.
beckingz 7y ago
2-3 cups a day, unless it's crunch time.
oh_sigh 7y ago
I drink up to 4 cups a day or zero per day. I might be a daily drinker for 2 months and then go a month or two without a cup or any caffeine source at all. I've never had a problem with caffeine withdrawal headache which is interesting. 23andme says I'm 'likely to slightly more coffee than average' and I am a slow caffeine metabolizer based on my genetics. The only coffee rules I really follow are 1) don't drink it if I'm tired - for whatever reason I feel nauseous if I drink it when I am actually tired, and 2) don't drink any after 3PM or else I probably won't go to sleep until 1-2AM.
meerita 7y ago
I need to clarify I drink americano style. Expresso was barely 1 a day before the corona virus
vbezhenar 7y ago
I'm drinking one cup every 1-2 hours. But my coffee is not usual, it's a very hard coffee from moka pot mixed with fresh milk in proportion 1:9, so it's not a lot of coffee actually, but rather a lot of milk. I'm really addicted to the taste of this beverage and caffeine makes me feel a little bit better.
bob1029 7y ago
I just cut back to zero caffeine as of a week ago. It was hell, but I finally hit break-even today. It became obvious the coffee consumption was impacting productivity and sleep quality so I had to hit the reset button. Just had my first "normal" day and it was far more productive than any other day in 2020. I will try to stay off the coffee indefinitely.
- tiborsaas 7y ago
  How does it became obvious that it affects productivity? It impacts mine if I don't drink it.
  - snazz 7y ago
    For a lot of people, the negative sleep impacts overshadow any improvement in productivity as a result of the caffeine. If you've been drinking it for a while, the withdrawal could take multiple months, so you might not be able to tell what your decaffeinated brain feels like until you've been off it for a long time.
matwood 7y ago
We would need to define a cup. I have a little pot that I use a #2 filter on to brew. It says it's 4 cups, but really fills my coffee cup twice. I drink 1 pot a day. My wife hates coffee, but my ritual of bean grinding, water boiling and pouring with all the associated smells has also become part of her mourning routine.
tempestn 7y ago
I never developed a taste for coffee, and decided early on that there was no reason to try to do so. (I'm in my late 30s now.) I do have the occasional coke, which I'd never noticed any effect from until the past few years. A single can of coke later than early afternoon now will have a noticeable impact on my sleep that night—get sleepy later, and end up sleeping around 0.5-1 hours less than I would otherwise. (With the expected resulting tiredness the next day.) Of course I expect much of that is due to lack of tolerance since I so rarely have caffeine.
- asdff 7y ago
  Coffee has to be forced imo. No one likes coffee from the getgo, and if they tell you they do they really just like sugar and warm milk. It takes a while to overcome the bitterness and notice the taste, kinda like hard liquor. The whole reason why I forced myself to start drinking it was to not fall asleep driving to high school. I worked closing shift so sleep was sparse.
asdff 7y ago
My consumption has gone down to one dose in the morning since the pandemic, but before when I still had a life it was far higher. You can set your clock to my comedown. Usually I'll need another dose at lunch, especially if I'm to be engaging with other people. If I'm doing something after work I'll need another dose at four, then however late the day runs I'll be needing to take a caffeine pill every four hours or else I'll enter a pretty thick mental fog or start sleeping sitting upright. That mental fog and falling asleep still happens since I'm not taking the afternoon pills, I've just been leaning into napping like a toddler while working from home. Sometimes I'll doze off with a line half written in terminal, wake up and just go right back to typing the rest of the command.

Been hooked on V60 drip for my morning coffee. Really gets the flavour out of the coffee. Worth watching a few vids on youtube to get the technique right.

beckingz 7y ago

2-3 cups a day, unless it's crunch time.

oh_sigh 7y ago

I drink up to 4 cups a day or zero per day. I might be a daily drinker for 2 months and then go a month or two without a cup or any caffeine source at all. I've never had a problem with caffeine withdrawal headache which is interesting. 23andme says I'm 'likely to slightly more coffee than average' and I am a slow caffeine metabolizer based on my genetics. The only coffee rules I really follow are 1) don't drink it if I'm tired - for whatever reason I feel nauseous if I drink it when I am actually tired, and 2) don't drink any after 3PM or else I probably won't go to sleep until 1-2AM.

meerita 7y ago

I need to clarify I drink americano style. Expresso was barely 1 a day before the corona virus

vbezhenar 7y ago

I'm drinking one cup every 1-2 hours. But my coffee is not usual, it's a very hard coffee from moka pot mixed with fresh milk in proportion 1:9, so it's not a lot of coffee actually, but rather a lot of milk. I'm really addicted to the taste of this beverage and caffeine makes me feel a little bit better.

bob1029 7y ago

I just cut back to zero caffeine as of a week ago. It was hell, but I finally hit break-even today. It became obvious the coffee consumption was impacting productivity and sleep quality so I had to hit the reset button. Just had my first "normal" day and it was far more productive than any other day in 2020. I will try to stay off the coffee indefinitely.

tiborsaas 7y ago
How does it became obvious that it affects productivity? It impacts mine if I don't drink it.
- snazz 7y ago
  For a lot of people, the negative sleep impacts overshadow any improvement in productivity as a result of the caffeine. If you've been drinking it for a while, the withdrawal could take multiple months, so you might not be able to tell what your decaffeinated brain feels like until you've been off it for a long time.

matwood 7y ago

We would need to define a cup. I have a little pot that I use a #2 filter on to brew. It says it's 4 cups, but really fills my coffee cup twice. I drink 1 pot a day. My wife hates coffee, but my ritual of bean grinding, water boiling and pouring with all the associated smells has also become part of her mourning routine.

tempestn 7y ago

I never developed a taste for coffee, and decided early on that there was no reason to try to do so. (I'm in my late 30s now.) I do have the occasional coke, which I'd never noticed any effect from until the past few years. A single can of coke later than early afternoon now will have a noticeable impact on my sleep that night—get sleepy later, and end up sleeping around 0.5-1 hours less than I would otherwise. (With the expected resulting tiredness the next day.) Of course I expect much of that is due to lack of tolerance since I so rarely have caffeine.

asdff 7y ago
Coffee has to be forced imo. No one likes coffee from the getgo, and if they tell you they do they really just like sugar and warm milk. It takes a while to overcome the bitterness and notice the taste, kinda like hard liquor. The whole reason why I forced myself to start drinking it was to not fall asleep driving to high school. I worked closing shift so sleep was sparse.

asdff 7y ago

My consumption has gone down to one dose in the morning since the pandemic, but before when I still had a life it was far higher. You can set your clock to my comedown. Usually I'll need another dose at lunch, especially if I'm to be engaging with other people. If I'm doing something after work I'll need another dose at four, then however late the day runs I'll be needing to take a caffeine pill every four hours or else I'll enter a pretty thick mental fog or start sleeping sitting upright. That mental fog and falling asleep still happens since I'm not taking the afternoon pills, I've just been leaning into napping like a toddler while working from home. Sometimes I'll doze off with a line half written in terminal, wake up and just go right back to typing the rest of the command.