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I'll second that. Growing up, I saw my father drinking lots of coffee every day, and complaining about his "addiction". This simply registered as a bad thing in

I'll second that. Growing up, I saw my father drinking lots of coffee every day, and complaining about his "addiction". This simply registered as a bad thing in my mind, so I avoided coffee at all costs until I was about 30. Even now, I still have a "moral" repulsion towards coffee, if you wish. Most non-working days, I don't touch coffee. So, I was able to get through a PhD without caffeine. But, man, how many times was I sleepy. The worse was being sleepy at the wheel. How many times did I not started dozing for a few seconds while driving (never got into an accident though). And no, I was not sleep deprived. There are people, like me, who are sleepy at times, despite not skimping on their sleep. I will note though, that for the last 6 weeks I did not drink any coffee, with all the work-from-home thing. I drink only tea nowadays.

ignoramous 7y ago
Tea has caffine, too. Any reason you switched to tea? And what has been your experience, so far? Curious, do you prefer the CTC tea [0] or whole-leaf / fannings? [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush,_tear,_curl https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush,_tear,_curl
- credit_guy 7y ago
  > Any reason you switched to tea It's irrational for me. I simply don't associate tea with "wrong". I also know that tea has much less caffeine than coffee. The experience so far was good. The only unpleasant thing is that I get nausea from simple tea, so I need to use cream and a sweetener, and sometimes even with that I still get nausea. Long term I would like to be able to ditch caffeine completely. But it's not really on my top 10 todo list.