Magic Mushrooms. LSD. Ketamine. The Drugs That Power Silicon Valley

15 pointsposted 13 hours ago
by youngtaff
(wsj.com)

7 Comments

_wire_

13 hours ago

A million or so in U.S. prisons for drug offenses while Silicon Valley techbros strut their "power" hallucinogen habits.

AstroJetson

9 hours ago

> things you can do at work when you’re high on drugs, such as brainstorming in a meeting or using Excel.

... using Excel. Oh nice, some of the most complex stuff I've seen has been in Excel and lots of magic VBA.

ray_v

7 hours ago

I have a friend in aeronautical engineering and he told me a story of some other older engineer who had this elaborate simulation entirely coded in Excel. He had to leave it run over the weekend in order to produce output!

rootsudo

12 hours ago

I mean.. so does every rave, high school or university party. Drug use in America is common enough.