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Interesting perspective on the use of LSD (and drugs in general). From and article, “LSD: The Geek’s Wonder Drug?, in Wired Magazine”:http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/70015

When Kevin Herbert has a particularly intractable programming problem, or finds himself pondering a big career decision, he deploys a powerful mind expanding tool — LSD-25.

I will leave it at that.

I have this constant fear that I have already “peaked” or am currently “peaking” at the age of 32. Basically, I hope it is not all downhill from here because I am not too sure I am very high up. Luckily, I am not alone in this fear and one of my friends just posted a link on his blog to a good article about creativity and age. Here is an excerpt:

We often presume creativity is the domain of youth, that great artists are young geniuses, brash and brilliant iconoclasts. Arthur Rimbaud, Pablo Picasso, T.S. Eliot, Orson Welles, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jasper Johns all revolutionized their artistic disciplines in their teens or 20s…But there’s another path to artistic success, one that doesn’t rely on sudden flashes of insight but on the trial-and-error accumulation of knowledge that ultimately leads to novel manifestations of wisdom and judgment…it was the path for a host of other artists: Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop, to name a few. Twain wrote ‘Tom Sawyer’ at 41 and bettered it with ‘Huckleberry Finn’ at 50″