Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
Do you all discuss the heavy use because you're concerned about the toll it could take on your lungs, in the same way you might be concerned if it was tobacco? or is it more than that? (also I can't believe you can run marathons and smoke that much!)
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
thanks for the link. And I have found meth is alot more common, it seems, in the gay community.
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
What is it like for you to work in isolation for so much of the time? Do you think the cannabis and LSD are only for focus or is some of it for (for lack of a better word) escape?
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
It started out as a focus on drug abuse, but more than abuse or use, I'm trying to answer a question of why? If, for example, you don't abuse but just use psychoactive drugs in some way, regularly, why? Especially if you like your job or things seem pretty good in your life. I am not judging and don't know the answer. Maybe the query is too broad though, I guess I'm going into this open eyed and open minded and I'll see what patterns emerge.
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
it was enormously freeing to finally be able to write about what happened to my family, yes, thank you. I felt like I was living in a John Grisham created hell, afraid of telling anyone what really happened and instead acting like Peter was the victim of his own stringent work ethic (which is true and not true). May I ask you what you do for a living? Are you a developer?
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
I completely agree and absolutely intend to discuss that in the book, thank you. When you say "brain health" do you mean actual neurological changes taking place in the brain, or underlying mental health issues like depression and anxiety?
Eilene
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
Have you always found you need some way to decompress from the stress? I'm trying to learn how stressful your work as a developer is. Is it the work or the work environment (a startup). Do most of your peers find some way to come down at night, be it weed or drinking or something else?
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
Do you think that the pot is countering any depression or down feelings that may come from being isolated for so long each day? That sounds really hard, even if you really like the work.
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
In college I worked as a waitress for 10 hour shifts with 8-10 tables at a time, and it was madness. (Mario Batali was a cook when I was there). And I remember thinking all the waitresses and cooks were just really fast and upbeat, the way I was. And then my boyfriend at the time, also a cook, laughed at my ignorance and told me that almost everyone else was doing coke or crank all night long. I had no idea.
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
Could it be that one reason we use chemicals to "enhance" our brains is because we are living in ways we aren't intended to live? Human beings aren't made to sit in front of a screen for 16 hours a day. We probably shouldn't be as isolated as we can get, we shouldn't be living the way we live (in crowded cities, say, disconnected from family or community, doing one thing--coding, for example--for 10 hours at a time, etc.)Does that makes sense to anyone?
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
Good point. And I'm interested in knowing how being in SV, as opposed to outside that particular fish bowl, affects drug use
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
I'm wondering if it's life conditions in many cases that is part of the reason for using in the first place? Yes, needing to work long hours is very real, but maybe the drugs also help to avoid life conditions that we don't want to deal with...
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
Thanks for the links.
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
yes, that's perfect. Thank you.
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
I'd love to talk to you. Did this happen a long time ago, your experience(s)? or was this in the last 4 years?
Also, to reiterate, do not need to use your name, etc. Don't even need to know it to speak to you.
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
Do you use Adderall too?
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
In your professional career, have you been in other industries and regions where it was far more prevalent?
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
Are you still working in the industry in Austin and do you still use this?
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
how can you tell if someone is up? Just from years of using stimulants yourself or are there obvious, telltale signs? I missed a boatload of them with Peter.
Eilene
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
will do.
