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I can vouch for this. I just gave an SDE a bad performance review because he could never recall any code he worked on or how it worked…

thecleaner 5y ago
Is there scientific evidence linking marijuana to memory loss ?
- Jensson 5y ago
  Yes, although as always with drugs I am sure plenty of people will say that all those studies are flawed or biased. You can see it change rat brains: > As people age, they lose neurons in the hippocampus, which decreases their ability to learn new information. Chronic THC exposure may hasten age-related loss of hippocampal neurons. In one study, rats exposed to THC every day for 8 months (approximately 30% of their lifespan) showed a level of nerve cell loss at 11 to 12 months of age that equaled that of unexposed animals twice their age. It has measurable effects on human performance: > Among nearly 4,000 young adults in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study tracked over a 25-year period until mid-adulthood, cumulative lifetime exposure to marijuana was associated with lower scores on a test of verbal memory but did not affect other cognitive abilities such as processing speed or executive function. The effect was sizable and significant even after eliminating those involved with current use and after adjusting for confounding factors such as demographic factors, other drug and alcohol use, and other psychiatric conditions such as depression.42 https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana/what-are-marijuanas-long-term-effects-brain https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/mari...
flashgordon 5y ago
I wasn't sure so had to ask. Where you making a joke? Did the sde have actual measurable perf problems?
- gremloni 5y ago
  The lack of recall led to severe perf problems. He had a hard time fixing bugs quickly on code he had written. A significant change from the past, I presume he has started smoking a lot of weed.
  - serjester 5y ago
    This sounds more like they’re burned out. Subordinates going from great to terrible usually means the business is failing them, not they suddenly “started smoking a lot of weed”. I would take a hard look at your job as a manager.
    - gremloni 5y ago
      No, he smells like pot.
      - ageofwant 5y ago
        Perhaps you should consider your part in that. Or if you could have had a more positive impact on his life apart from kicking him when he was down.
        gremloni 5y ago
        Unfortunately we do stack ranking so it wouldn’t be fair to anyone else on the team. He also refuses to say anything in 1:1s with regular nudging.
  - flashgordon 5y ago
    Yeah that is sad. Software engineering for the most part has become "standardized" and it is unfortunate this individual either missed the boat on the upskilling or just ran out of steam/luck from what may have been (possibly successful) cowboy coding days!
  - afarrell 5y ago
    This can also be caused by persistent sleep problems, which a lot of people have had during the pandemic.
AndyNemmity 5y ago
Oh gosh, I am pretty bad at this. The only thing that seems to help is being on keto, in which case my recall is amazing. Never got a poor performance review for it, but that's a real issue I have.

thecleaner 5y ago

Is there scientific evidence linking marijuana to memory loss ?

Jensson 5y ago
Yes, although as always with drugs I am sure plenty of people will say that all those studies are flawed or biased. You can see it change rat brains: > As people age, they lose neurons in the hippocampus, which decreases their ability to learn new information. Chronic THC exposure may hasten age-related loss of hippocampal neurons. In one study, rats exposed to THC every day for 8 months (approximately 30% of their lifespan) showed a level of nerve cell loss at 11 to 12 months of age that equaled that of unexposed animals twice their age. It has measurable effects on human performance: > Among nearly 4,000 young adults in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study tracked over a 25-year period until mid-adulthood, cumulative lifetime exposure to marijuana was associated with lower scores on a test of verbal memory but did not affect other cognitive abilities such as processing speed or executive function. The effect was sizable and significant even after eliminating those involved with current use and after adjusting for confounding factors such as demographic factors, other drug and alcohol use, and other psychiatric conditions such as depression.42 https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana/what-are-marijuanas-long-term-effects-brain https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/mari...

flashgordon 5y ago

I wasn't sure so had to ask. Where you making a joke? Did the sde have actual measurable perf problems?

gremloni 5y ago
The lack of recall led to severe perf problems. He had a hard time fixing bugs quickly on code he had written. A significant change from the past, I presume he has started smoking a lot of weed.
- serjester 5y ago
  This sounds more like they’re burned out. Subordinates going from great to terrible usually means the business is failing them, not they suddenly “started smoking a lot of weed”. I would take a hard look at your job as a manager.
  - gremloni 5y ago
    No, he smells like pot.
    - ageofwant 5y ago
      Perhaps you should consider your part in that. Or if you could have had a more positive impact on his life apart from kicking him when he was down.
      - gremloni 5y ago
        Unfortunately we do stack ranking so it wouldn’t be fair to anyone else on the team. He also refuses to say anything in 1:1s with regular nudging.
- flashgordon 5y ago
  Yeah that is sad. Software engineering for the most part has become "standardized" and it is unfortunate this individual either missed the boat on the upskilling or just ran out of steam/luck from what may have been (possibly successful) cowboy coding days!
- afarrell 5y ago
  This can also be caused by persistent sleep problems, which a lot of people have had during the pandemic.

AndyNemmity 5y ago

Oh gosh, I am pretty bad at this. The only thing that seems to help is being on keto, in which case my recall is amazing. Never got a poor performance review for it, but that's a real issue I have.