Eilene

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by Eilene 9y ago
It sounds like you would need a stimulant of some sort, just to counter the genetic issue. Thanks for your candor.
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by Eilene 9y ago
Can you tell me what substituted phenethylamine is?
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by Eilene 9y ago
For all the same reasons it's used in tech--to enhance productivity? are junior faculty and post docs overworked or are the hours required of them kind of insane too?
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by Eilene 9y ago
Yes, realized that in the last 20 minutes, when I went to look up modafinil. Do you think that the use of performance related drugs and stimulants are far more prevalent in the under 40 set? Or under 30? than among those working in tech tha
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by Eilene 9y ago
I'll contact you directly, and appreciate your candor. Do you think it's a European vs. American thing? That we tend to demonize in some ways the need for substances to help us in some way, whereas in Berlin, for example, no one c
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by Eilene 9y ago
Yes absolutely understand that. And I'm coming at this as someone trying to learn what the situation is--I don't have a preconceived notion of stimulant or amphetamine use as being pervasive. That's why I'm here--to lear
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by Eilene 9y ago
If it feels more like flailing now than super productivity, have you stopped taking stimulants (or do you have to because of an attention issue)?
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by Eilene 9y ago
Do you ever feel like everyone around you is doing some substance to make them work faster or better, and that you'll somehow fall behind or be at a professional disadvantage if yo don't?
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by Eilene 9y ago
Is this manager still going this route? And do you think any of the microdosing (or other drug use) goes beyond the 10x productivity stuff? Could it be some of the tedium of programming work? Does it relieve any of that? I'm trying to
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by Eilene 9y ago
Do you still use that now? or other stimulants? Or did you find you didn't need it after college?
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by Eilene 9y ago
And the drugs that are frowned upon... that's (as far as your experience goes) in the tech industry? I know lawyers that had meth addictions. Peter used coke, adderall and meth. It sounds like cocaine is more widely accepted (and perh
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by Eilene 9y ago
I don't know what those are, I'm sorry. I'm not in the industry (software engineering/tech) so am not familiar with those (though I know they exist). Is it something I can do in the next hour?
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by Eilene 9y ago
completely true.
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by Eilene 9y ago
I will be checking that email too, later today, and will respond. Thank you.
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by Eilene 9y ago
Can you work better on ecstasy though? Isn't that more a recreational thing than a productivity related thing?
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by Eilene 9y ago
Yes, I've been reading about psychedelics. But that seems to be more to spark creativity (and there also appears to be some actual therapeutic benefits to it). Whereas opioids or stimulants seem to be used for different purposes.
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by Eilene 9y ago
regulator, sorry.
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by Eilene 9y ago
Peter said he thought he needed modafinil. Why is it a hot topic now? His thought way back was that it was everything he needed at the time--mood regular, stimulant.
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by Eilene 9y ago
I appreciate the caution, thank you. That email is what gets funneled from my website, so it's fine. It's not my personal personal email. It's for the book.
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by Eilene 9y ago
Very insightful, I think, about the exec at a big company. A therapist who treats tech people in Sil Val said she has been told there is coke being done openly at some exec committee/board meetings, etc. and pressure to do it. Like Wal
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by Eilene 9y ago
What made you decide to go cold turkey? (which sounds almost not-doable it's so tough). Did you hit some kind of wall? And would you mind commenting on what you think happens to engineers who don't use some kind of stimulant?
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by Eilene 9y ago
Any chance you can explain why? Not enough hours in the day kind of thing? Is the only route to success in software engineering to work 24/7?
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by Eilene 9y ago
please send to zimmermaneilene@gmail.com.
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by Eilene 9y ago
of course. please send to zimmermaneilene@gmail.com.
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Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
542 points by Eilene 9y ago|615 comments
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by Eilene 9y ago
And you can find out who I am here: www.eilenezimmerman.com Thank you.
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by Eilene 9y ago
please contact me using this email: zimmermaneilene@gmail.com.
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Looking for sources for a book I'm writing
1 points by Eilene 9y ago|3 comments