"""" The negatives are obvious; less sociable, more easily irritated, wanting to be by yourself. After you've spent a day in the zone, you're not really "party material". """

That hits close to home. Ive thought about this a bunch and it feels as though setting up the mental context of programming, the implicit model I have of how a programs operates and what is happening, is an expensive process. I do wonder what exactly is being depleted in this process - glucose? Neurotransmitters? And whether it'd be possible to supplement this such that I minimize the cost of such operations.