Is this even noteworthy? I've never drunk coffee or tea and stopped drinking alcohol 12 years ago and never thought to mention it to the Internet.

I don't drink coffee. I'm usually more alert and awake every single morning than most of my coffee drinking friends after they've gotten their morning fix.

For those of you that aren't lazy, the best way to feel alert and awake in the morning is to exercise in the morning. Get that blood flowing everywhere!

I don't really see how someone who is so willingly and naively a slave to their culture could ever be trusted to make good, objective decisions.

Imagine for a moment that you've decided to go a year without speaking. What would your friends and family think of you? Are you too afraid of what they think to do it? If so, then how could you ever know if you have what it takes to be a good person? How do you know if your culture is depriving you of the freedom to make a hard-but-correct decision? How can someone call themselves a leader when their too busy following to even see forks in the road?

Maybe I'm biased since I've had to pack an ascetic lifestyle into a duffel bag and go to war as a freshly-minted adult, but I'm thoroughly disappointed that someone would think going without completely unnecessary luxuries like coffee and alcohol is noteworthy in any way. People go without far more than that for far longer. What a small world some people live in.

Discussion yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10678872

$10 for a cocktail? Screw Australia and our $18 cocktails, I'm heading to NY for the cheap drinks

I am assuming he drinks non caffeinated tea.