There's more to it than just a general percentage-based productivity boost.
It's also about gaining the energy to drill down into things you otherwise couldn't be faffed to care about.
People always joke about popping amphetamine and organizing their sock drawer in incredible detail. Apply that to some product you're working on. In software, it's common to gain the energy to spend time coming up with the perfect abstraction. Or fleshing out those API docs in great detail. Or really just fully immersing yourself in a problem and your solution.
Often things you otherwise simply wouldn't ever do because your sober self isn't going to spend half a day obsessing over the UX of a form.
It's also about gaining the energy to drill down into things you otherwise couldn't be faffed to care about.
People always joke about popping amphetamine and organizing their sock drawer in incredible detail. Apply that to some product you're working on. In software, it's common to gain the energy to spend time coming up with the perfect abstraction. Or fleshing out those API docs in great detail. Or really just fully immersing yourself in a problem and your solution.
Often things you otherwise simply wouldn't ever do because your sober self isn't going to spend half a day obsessing over the UX of a form.
It's not just about getting more work done.