Ask PG: Does smoking marijuana affect the ability to hack and run a startup?

Re:Ask PG: Does smoking marijuana affect the ability to hack... by leeoniya on Friday December 27, 2013 @10:34PM (#6973781)

i cannot get anything done after smoking except for couching, lazy remote operation, eating and sleeping. if i have anything to get done (which is 99% of the time), i don't smoke. my buddy, however, smokes whenever he's awake and is the most productive/brilliant engineer i've ever met, i don't get it.

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Re:Ask PG: Does smoking marijuana affect the ability to hack... by kordless on Friday December 27, 2013 @11:06PM (#6973869)

You may want to try a couple of varieties of pure Sativa. You may be one of those people that is sensitive to the CBDs in weed. Higher concentrations can make you sleepy.

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Re:Ask PG: Does smoking marijuana affect the ability to hack... by busterarm on Friday December 27, 2013 @10:37PM (#6973786)

Right. The negative stereotypes associated with a smoker's lifestyle aren't exactly unwarranted. Once OP associates with something so polarizing, it's much harder to control the public's perception of you and your company.

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Re:Ask PG: Does smoking marijuana affect the ability to hack... by pokesmot on Friday December 27, 2013 @10:56PM (#6973838)

For me, it's a happy in between. Come home from work, have a bag from the vaporizer and write a bunch of code for my side project. Though, Friday, when everyone else goes out to the bar, I stay in have several bags, watch some stupid TV and fall asleep early on the couch. Works for me, but I also know how to not overdo it, etc. It's honestly a lot like alcohol in that regard.

Can you imagine how weird it would be if people freaked out if they heard you had a beer at lunch or had a beer at 4PM while working from home? Weird to me at least...

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