I found weed to allow me to think outside of the box far better than without. I developed some incredible algorithms and approaches in systems software that I don't think I would have ever explored straight sober. Also, weed gave me the patience to explore these alternate solutions that I may have ignored as silly or too much effort if I were straight. Admittedly the thought exercises were time consuming but the end products were world class. One innovative approach to test time reduction I developed while stoned at my kitchen table in the 1980s was later developed independently by a team of engineers and used in the operating systems of multimillion dollar sparc based LTX semiconductor test platforms a few years later. I'll always be convinced weed helped me to be more creative, and patient in developing creative solutions.

My metrics today are fucking insane.

Yeah, I'm much more talkative, friendly, and normal when at a certain level of drunk. Beyond that I get weepy. There's a fine line for me.

The job is 100% verbal. Liquor increases my communications powers to an insane degree. Yeah, I can do the job sober, and I have done the job sober for the entire time I have had it. Today was the first time I went in drunk.

I cannot stress enough how insanely well I performed. The people I have to call... They don't want to be called. They hide behind gatekeepers. They don't want to talk. They definitely don't want to talk to me.

But today, today they all wanted to talk to me. Today the gatekeepers gave me the personal cellphone number of the people I am trying to reach. Today they all wanted to buy the shit I sell. My average call length was quadrupled from what it normally is. Even the Germans wanted to talk. They never want to fucking talk.