In his fierce nerds essay he says meditation dulls you.

“ Another solution may be to somehow turn off your fierceness, by devoting yourself to meditation or psychotherapy or something like that. Maybe that's the right answer for some people. I have no idea. But it doesn't seem the optimal solution to me. If you're given a sharp knife, it seems to me better to use it than to blunt its edge to avoid cutting yourself.”

It seems to me he thinks meditation makes you less sharp...for me it only helps me focus better and work on more hard problems, kind of like taking a nap. Does taking a nap make you less sharp? Or increase your alertness?

This is what I want cleared up because I don’t wanna waste my time practicing meditation, personally though there’s tons of study that show the mental benefits so My concern is giving people the wrong information about it.