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Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by pjc50 on Friday October 08, 2021 @10:29AM (#28799696)
My personal joke about this is "I used to be a 10x developer but then I took an arrow to the knee".

Many, many years ago a colleague wrote about the experience of being bipolar and choosing to stop taking the lithium for a temporary productivity boost and subsequent crash.

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Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by kayodelycaon on Friday October 08, 2021 @02:00PM (#28802153)
> choosing to stop taking the lithium

Having been unmediated and undiagnosed for most of my life, mania is a hell of a drug. But the cost is high... really high.

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