One good technique for listening to the part of you that's struggling is internal double crux. Note that it has to be able to go both ways, it's not a new way to override the elephant 

Sweet, that would be really helpful! I recently read gwerns post on modafinil, but found it wasn't that helpful for understanding the benefits of taking it, or how to use it effectively (dose, schedule, etc) 😅 I tend to get pretty good sleep, and the main takeaway I got from that post was that it mainly lets you need less sleep

Do you have any insight into using psychedelics for good? I know gwerns microdosing lsd test came up negative, and I haven't found it helpful for me to focus on a job I don't like even though it pays well (it actually made it worse) so I haven't tried it since or for something I actually care about (I'm actively looking for a new role that I will care more about, and may pay better). But I know real trips sometimes help me focus for the following week or two. I'm also curious about using low-dose dmt while working, I found it slightly helpful the one time I tried and may try again but figured I'd ask if you know

Are there any guides for how to use stimulants effectively for good? Assuming someone could access pretty much whatever ones they wanted, which ones should they use and how should they go about dosing? Or/and, what strategy should they use when figuring out what works best for them? e.g. should they try to take a blind random dose and drug and take notes for a while, to pick the best for them? Or start with adderall and slowly increase dosage until they hit diminishing returns, then try modafinil and ramp up dosage till diminishing returns, and repeat for various other ones? Or should they cycle different ones to avoid tolerance?

I know for me caffeine amplifies my energy, but is still unguided and I find myself distracted by the same things but just with more energy and focus. And I know the "correct" answer is talk to a medical professional, but I prefer to avoid the medical system as much as possible, and that's expensive, and anyways how would a medical proffesional approach those questions?

If you're worried about stealth, they have a vape that looks like a pen, and can write too https://www.pulsarshop.com/products/510-dl-scribe-vape-pen

I'll have to think about a better way to phrase my point, since I still think that the sheer amount of suffering and death far outweighs human issues. Almost all animals we kill at the very least have a bad death, and ~94% of the ones we farm (~10% of the ones we kill) also have a bad life. We factory farm about as many animals per year as the total number of humans who have ever lived, maybe about a third as many, maybe almost twice as many. Multiply that out by the number of years we've been doing those things and I still don't think any human problem even comes close to as bad. 

Good point, the way I worded that is wrong since we kill more animals than we farm and looking into it more now it looks like the 99% figure applies to the US, but according to our world in data (link later in this comment), the global estimate including farmed fish is more likely 94%. It's also not more animals per year than all humans, apparently it's likely about on par

According to https://www.prb.org/articles/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-on-earth/, "About 117 billion members of our species have ever been born on Earth".

According to our world in data and sentience institute, we factory farm 111 billion per year, but "this has wide uncertainty, ranging from 39 to 216 billion" (https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-are-factory-farmed) (i.e. on the low end my point is it happens every three years and it still dwarfs human issues but not by as much, and on the high end it happens almost twice per year and is an even worse problem.)

Once you factor in wild fishing, then it's even more clear. And the method of slaughter for sea fish (suffocating or crushed to death in a pile) does not seem meaningfully better to me than a factory farm slaughterhouse, so the connotation still applies imo.

I agree that my perspective is likely to turn away people, I don't lead with it in conversations with the general public, but I do still think it's true. The problem is multiplied by every year we let it continue, it's not just a one-time <torture as many animals as all humans ever> event. Effective messaging to the public is super important, but it's not what I was trying to do with my comment. I was trying to highlight a reality so that people who really care about reality can use it to help orient and decide what to focus resources on.

Hot take: the fact that we kill more animals per year than the total number of humans who've ever lived, and ~99% of them are factory farmed, I think animal agriculture is a moral atrocity that dwarfs all human problems (including throughout history). 

Pulsar vapes has some good, cheap, vape batteries that fit a 510 cartridge in and they look like a disposable nicotine vape. They also usually have auto draw which is nice. They also have a wizard pipe battery that looks like gandalfs pipe, not discreet in public but could be nice for at home, especially if you get a nice display stand like this lol https://makerworld.com/en/models/657155-tobacco-smoking-pipe-stand-for-long-short-stem

I would recommend even lower voltages than the ones commonly recommended (~2.7v), closer to 2.1v. 2.7v seems to be kinda harsh and lead to coughing, but lower voltages work just as well for delivering the medicine. Note also that peg400 is smoother/less harsh than propylene glycol (pg), and isn't much more expensive on amazon.

A bit of coughing and a scratchy throat is probably nothing compared to a cluster headache, but we might as well reduce as much suffering as we can while we're at it 

https://wiki.dmt-nexus.me/HIELO

https://m.psychonautwiki.org/wiki/DMT_extraction_using_lye_(sodium_hydroxide)_and_naphtha

Edit: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/DMT#Legal_status In the US, DMT is classified as a schedule 1 drug and producing it is very illegal. See the link for legal status in other countries