careful with psychedelics, they may sap your drive to found the next generation of startups needed to *checks notes* reinvent indentured servitude and student loan fraud
We yet to have an Uber for civil forfeiture and I blame ayahuasca
i'm not gonna advocate secretly dosing capitalists with psychedelics (like in Illuminatus!)
oh god, not empathy!
Imagine coming to the realization that people are, in fact, not gadgets and then also realizing that means there's no place for you in Silicon Valley.
iirc the scientific explanation is ~ that some research indicates certain psychedelics increase the “openness” dimension of personality in a way that persists for a fairly long time; for some people, this is a very positive thing that makes them not be assholes as frequently
Steve Jobs's bestie in college:
they might lead you to decide that the hundred million you have in the bank is enough to live the rest of your life in luxury so why not just do that
They prefer more of a coke addled culture.
It shouldn't take much of any drug to realize when you have enough money and that you can expend the rest of your life enjoying life.
Man, I took psychedelics, and all I got was the not-spiders complaining about all the life gunking up their simulation of what baryonic stars would look like.