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I don't think your link at "extremely controversial" is working as intended.

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Love the analysis. The Diet Coke story in Tyler Cowen Talent book also took me down a path… I think the correlation is likely all the caffeine (albeit I’m not basing this off as rigorous an analysis). If you’re having 12 diet cokes a day (totally doable) then you’re likely just very wired… Diet Coke is also a great caffeine delivery mechanism that can be consumed all day and night… wrote some more thoughts here: https://mysticalsilicon.substack.com/p/humans-caffeine-magic?s=w

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Huh. I missed this whole controversy. But it might explain why I'm not ambitious, successful, competitive, or rich, despite having consumed enough Diet Coke to fill Lake Michigan.

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