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.