What's your regimen and how do you measure the effectiveness in an objective manner?
I tried microdosing LSD for a few weeks and even at the smallest dose 10µg I felt like every dosing day was a lost day productivity-wise as I became even more unfocused than usual.
I drop a stamp into 10ml of vodka and take 1ml every 3rd day. I don't have an objective way of measuring an effectiveness of it, of course. However, I do feel that when I need to focus I can focus much easier. I don't feel jitters and the next day I also feel elevated mood and overall just more positive.
It's an argument pro two-time scales and against two dimensional time just by looking at what math says about partially ordered sets. R^2 is clearly not partially ordered as opposed to R^1.
I contacted for 10 years and managed to save up about 200k. Started at pre IPO company and walked away with 2.5m after taxes in 7 years. Big difference.
And I’m sure that some people who played the lottery actually won. That doesn’t mean that statistically counting on a payout from equity earned from a startup is worth it.
I worked at a startup for 9 month.. I left decided not to exercise any options and they got purchased very shortly after for a higher amount than anyone expected. I got a slightly higher paying position that allowed me to scrape together enough to qualify to buy a house in a large city. If I would have waited another cycle I would have been priced out.
10 years later I'm up 2 million on the house, lost 20,000-40,000 grand on the startup options. I wasn't forced to move in order to full vest and be tied to a dead product for 2 years while they figured out how to move anything of value into their applications.
There are a lot of ways to earn a million and taking more cash and investing yourself could yield more.
Impressive gain on the house! If you didn't exercise the options, do you mean you lost out on the opportunity for 30k?
Are you tapping into the value of your home with a mortgage? Otherwise, it seems like that's even less liquid than private stock (unless you move out.)
I had six unifi protect cameras for over a year until I replaced them all. Rain at night means motion notifications every 30 seconds, bugs at night, same thing. Unifi cameras are terrible for outdoor applications.
Very much possible. Non street level dealers tend to prefer repeat customers vs large volume of random people. Because of that they tend to monitor quality of their own products. I've met dealers who go as far as actually wash the product. Funny enough, the only time I bought from a random guy, I got baking soda instead.
This is a very misguided view. Majority of drug users are all around you, regular people who have families and hold jobs - your friends, your relatives, your coworkers. Just like majority of people who drink alcohol aren't alcoholics, majority of drug users aren't addicts.
Just considering it, it seems unlikely that the incredible economic volume of the hard-drugs industry is drivem by homeless people collecting change and redeeming cans.
Anecdotally, I know (or knew if they died) several people from PhD programs adjacent to my own who were habitual users of heroin (or stuff branded as such). I have significant experience with it (originating with friends in academia!!!), and it is very nice, but it just so happens that I like pooping more than I like opioids, which apparently is a stroke of luck
Most drug user I've seen were in private clubs in Paris or Nice/Monaco where the entry ticket was north of 150 euros
I also saw about 12 different heroin addicts in the streets next to my home, but tbh they were a lot less loud, aggressive and/or obnoxious than the alcoholics.
That could be because you probably assume that any drug use leads to addiction and despair. More often than not, despair leads to drug use as means for temporary escape and relief.
No, I assume most drug use leads to addiction except maybe "try once" cases, which I wouldn't call "use" like I don't call people who tried smoking once in their lifetime "smokers".
Despair is not even in the picture. Too bad you paint it as a viable excuse for making yourself even more stupid than usual.
