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I feel like "goto" gets an unfair bad reputation. It really can be useful at times.

I think you misspelled "horrifying". I can only imagine that producing something akin to the human centipede ... "Infinite Girls, One Cup" ...

Khan Academy is a great place to start. I second that recommendation.

Although I was pretty confident in my maths up through basic calculus, I began fresh earlier this year starting from pre-algebra on their videos and problem sets.

I took the approach of looking at the mind as a muscle and if I had taken a long break from lifting, I wouldn't jump right back in lifting the same weights. The analogy isn't perfect, but I feel like it helped to reinforce the old basic neural pathways in order to prime my mind for more difficult topics.

EDIT: Also the achievement points aspect helped as a learning tool as well.

I believe the term for this is called "Title Inflation".

Interesting how different doses affect different people differently.

Melatonin works great for me as well. I take 5mg. Not sure if my dreams are any more vivid than without it, as I've been taking it every night for years. I think I've always had vivid dreams, though I no longer get recurring nightmares (which I had years prior to taking melatonin; not sure when they ended).

30mg in a single dose is fairly high. It's not so bad if you split that into two doses over the course of a day, but still kind of high for the average person.

That's pretty interesting, though like the other replies, I don't think I would call 30mg (in a single dose) moderate, but that's neither here nor there with your situation.

Like you said, drugs like this affect people differently and it all depends on the neurochemistry of the individual, which to the best of my knowledge they don't (can't?) test for when they prescribe this stuff.

I was taking 30mg / day (15mg twice a day) and was pretty functional, though I think the dose might have been too high. Later on I would drop down to 15mg / day (7.5mg twice / day) and that was the sweet spot.

Perhaps, and I wouldn't know from first hand experience trying it myself, but I imagine it is almost guaranteed to be safer than smoking. For reference on that matter, my mother passed away a while back from lung cancer induced by smoking (small cell lung cancer).

I think the point was revealed in the first line. "A record of nootropics I have tried, ..."

I don't think it's supposed to be looked at as a one shot article or blog post, but rather a collection of notes / anecdotal evidence / experimentation.

If you take a consistent low dose of Adderall at least, there should be nothing wrong with taking it every day and might actually be preferable that way, otherwise you're in for a rollercoaster effect.

The longer you're on though, up to a point at least I imagine, assuming the dose is consistent, you will have a greater withdrawal period that will really suck compared to if you only use them recreationally, which I consider to include situations where you take them only when you need them, such as all nighters; that definitely falls under recreational usage.

I don't know if I'd call President Obama a health nut; maybe Michelle, but not sure about Barack, unless he quit smoking and switched permanently to the gum.

My experience with apps is that they're active when you're not using them, they slow everything down, and they drain battery; not to mention how many of them want to violate your personal information just short of knowing the size of your last dump.

Essentially most apps are malware with a bright coat of "legitimate" colored paint.

New Motto: Don't Repeat Yourself, Unless You Need To Repeat Yourself, In Which Case Repeat Yourself, But Be Careful How You Repeat Yourself ...

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