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by netizen-936824 1475 days ago
Haha an NMDA antagonist would be my last choice for problem solving, but I suppose that's what you mean by nothing novel
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It's like being a junior developer again, blundering through the codebase to fix some problem, which I do through brute-force coding, laser-focused on the goal, heedless of any broader considerations :)

LSD has the opposite problem where it's too easy to go down a refactoring wormhole or just get sucked into the internet because you read something on Medium and needed to know MORE.