wedrifid comments on Coffee: When it helps, when it hurts - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 10 March 2010 02:42:11PM 1 point [-]

Tell me more? It doesn't particularly surprise me but I'm not familiar with that specific effect...

Comment author: nerzhin 10 March 2010 06:09:16PM 1 point [-]

It makes my hands shake, especially when I'm nervous. So that adds: Avoid caffeine before playing poker.

Comment author: Technologos 11 March 2010 09:43:50PM 2 points [-]

Or you could just take more, so that the nervousness is swamped by the general handshakery...

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 10 March 2010 02:57:37PM 1 point [-]

What I've heard pointing in the same direction: a martial artist who gives up caffeine (very difficult for him) before tests, a juggling website which recommended against caffeine.