Make it an Irish coffee and you’ll get there faster. My sweet spot was ~3 beers in an hour and I could suddenly code better (and it wasn’t the alcohol talking).
There’s something similar with cannabis as well. Just a buzz and I’m a laser, even slightly more and suddenly I can’t remember the process I was working on.
It’s like looking through a telescope. Everything within the lens is clear and detailed, but anything on the periphery might as well not exist. Very useful state of mind for certain coding tasks.
Make it an Irish coffee and you’ll get there faster. My sweet spot was ~3 beers in an hour and I could suddenly code better (and it wasn’t the alcohol talking).
Relevant xkcd
There’s something similar with cannabis as well. Just a buzz and I’m a laser, even slightly more and suddenly I can’t remember the process I was working on.
It’s like looking through a telescope. Everything within the lens is clear and detailed, but anything on the periphery might as well not exist. Very useful state of mind for certain coding tasks.
Ballmer seems like a cokehead. He probably did plenty of both, though.
The Ballmer Peak