One of these dirty little non-secrets is that a weirdly high percentage of people who do interesting intellectual work take stimulants
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stimulants are a non trivial driver of the fact that you see such short careers before decay out of top minds.
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solid point that no one talks about
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see: the ccru
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Exactly. The people who constantly romanticize powerful psychoactive stimulants, are the ones who have not been on them long enough to realize how easily they can wreck one’s life (physically, mentally, and socially)
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Oh I definitely realize they can wreck your life, in fact, I wrote this about that: https://hazlitt.net/feature/dreams-are-boring … (I'm talking about a... different pattern of usage here)
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Yeah... in my own personal history of stimulant use there was... uh... definitely a period in my 20s where I was sliding towards some sort of precipice Unfortunately I think it's one of these things where you find out you have addictive tendencies when you find out
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