I am a religious person who happens to have enjoyed LSD in my time. I have had the most profound experiences during my many trips, and not a single one that was at all like the sense of awe I get from worship.
I love the headspace that you get into during the trip. It is great for finally addressing issues that you have set aside. After the trip however, you think that all your ideas are good, then it wears off, so either way it is not useful just by itself.
Write a journal daily, an open letter to yourself. Articulate your thoughts, what is bothering you, what you are pleased with, as accurately as you can.
I don't like that GNOME seems to force itself into situations as something more than a desktop environment. I mean all the extra libraries that somehow end up being dependencies in my non-GNOME system. And gconf, i.e. the Linux Registry, or whatever it has been rebranded to.
Similarly, GNU Info pages when well-written man pages suffice. Split by topic - there's already a mechanism for this.
I don't want to compile a basic utility like `curl` or something and then discover that somebody decided it has hard dependencies on graphical libraries and applications (even if once- or twice-removed).
KDE is superb these days, after the slump that was KDE 4. However even KDE developers seem think that a tic-tac-toe game needs to have its board abstracted as libtiktaktoe in case anybody else ever needs to use it.
I had thought that Wayland might be an improvement. It seems to be a regression. I recently learned that the trade-off for avoiding tearing in Wayland is increased latency compared to X11/Xorg. I don't want to care about my graphical display manager. X is not perfect, but it is tried-and-true, and it does not leave me struggling to share my screen in Zoom, or have legible fonts in my creative applications.
Systemd: Binary log files. I should be able to configure my system with `sed` and `awk` scripts that easily modify text configuration files.
On this note, applications should use plain text files for their data more often. For example, web browsers could use a hierarchy of text files, each representing a web page in history, or a bookmarked site. Sqlite is good, but a database is simply unnecessary in many cases, because filesystems are very optimized and perfectly useable for many cases. This encourages hacking and interoperation. I could comfortably browse through my bookmarks in a mature native file system explorer of my preference, instead of struggling with a tricky scrolling menu within a browser. If I want to change browsers or computers, there is no more export/import of links and then they get messed up anyway.
DBus: I'm not sure why the same functions could not be implemented robustly as a standard structure of named pipes.
SELinux: A tremendous gift so often squandered by being disabled with the global flag.
Dextromethorphan tolerance builds so rapidly. I have found the withdrawal to be hell after taking it legitimately for a cold longer than I realized. I have tried SSRIs and found that they also have a synergetic effect with Bupropion (good medicine). SSRIs also make me drowsy, but at least they can be sustainably taken daily for months.
"I was training for certification X." (it helps if you can back this up)
"I was taking care of ill family." (look in the mirror)
"I was travelling, and working short stints in between for money."
"I was minding my own business, doing nothing that concerns you. How do you explain why this company was not around in 2014?" (do not recommend saying this)
There is no shame in having mental health issues, and at the same time, you do not owe it to anybody to share particulars.
I love the headspace that you get into during the trip. It is great for finally addressing issues that you have set aside. After the trip however, you think that all your ideas are good, then it wears off, so either way it is not useful just by itself.