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Discussion on: Is coding with alcohol productive?

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Dian Fay

"Depressant" has a specific meaning when you're talking about drugs. It's not about your mood (and the existence of many, many super happy drunks gives that the lie anyway) -- it's about central nervous system activity. And with a metric as broad as "productivity" in a discipline where you can't easily measure tons of coal mined or engines built, it's difficult to argue for any correlation beyond getting bombed being provably unhelpful.

I don't drink & code on the clock, outside the odd lunch beer with officemates, but it can be fun to work on side projects with a beverage sometimes. Something that tastes nice and loosens up your neurons a bit.