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It's hard for me to imagine getting any meaningful programming work done on even a low dose of acid. One look at my computer and I go "I sure waste a lot of my

It's hard for me to imagine getting any meaningful programming work done on even a low dose of acid. One look at my computer and I go "I sure waste a lot of my life on this thing. I'm going to go outside."

tnecniv 10y ago
I'm pretty sure I'd just fall down a YouTube hole and never recover.
fsiefken 10y ago
A microdose is not a low dose, it's a dose where you don't notice you are tripping but your perception and concentration is enhanced
simooooo 10y ago
I'd probably take too much, turn inside out and get stuck to the ceiling.
Hydraulix989 10y ago
I'm a SV entrepreneur who is pretty well-connected with the community here (only mentioning this for the sake of credibility). Maybe it's because I missed Burning Man this year, but I haven't heard of anybody doing this outside of articles on garbage news outlets like TechCrunch that say people are. Marijuana or Adderall, sure (Meadow and Eaze are doing well here); maybe even the /r/nootropics stack, but not hallucinogenic substances. I know people who have experimented with shrooms, but they don't consider them a "drug of choice," let alone a productivity enhancer by any means. In fact, one of my acquaintances ended up going off the deep end when he started taking LSD. It was a really sad story.
- csp256 10y ago
  Absolutely, taking LSD can end poorly. There is plenty of evidence for it. Some people view their experiences during a trip as more important than their daily lives, and down that way lives nothing good. In fact, the morning after my first trip on LSD I thought "I should not do that more than, at absolute most, once a month." It did turn out to take me about a full month before I could take what I had experienced in stride, without any lasting delusion about the nature of the real world. But I will tell you with certainty (while the article maybe over blown) there are many people, myself included, who work in SV and take great comfort in sub-threshold psychedelics. Without it, I worry too much and am a perfectionist to my detriment. With it, I can contribute without fear of judgment.
slantaclaus 10y ago
That's what psilocybin would do, maybe not lsd. Shrooms will send you to the woods though for sure
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tnecniv 10y ago

I'm pretty sure I'd just fall down a YouTube hole and never recover.

fsiefken 10y ago

A microdose is not a low dose, it's a dose where you don't notice you are tripping but your perception and concentration is enhanced

simooooo 10y ago

I'd probably take too much, turn inside out and get stuck to the ceiling.

Hydraulix989 10y ago

I'm a SV entrepreneur who is pretty well-connected with the community here (only mentioning this for the sake of credibility). Maybe it's because I missed Burning Man this year, but I haven't heard of anybody doing this outside of articles on garbage news outlets like TechCrunch that say people are. Marijuana or Adderall, sure (Meadow and Eaze are doing well here); maybe even the /r/nootropics stack, but not hallucinogenic substances. I know people who have experimented with shrooms, but they don't consider them a "drug of choice," let alone a productivity enhancer by any means. In fact, one of my acquaintances ended up going off the deep end when he started taking LSD. It was a really sad story.

csp256 10y ago
Absolutely, taking LSD can end poorly. There is plenty of evidence for it. Some people view their experiences during a trip as more important than their daily lives, and down that way lives nothing good. In fact, the morning after my first trip on LSD I thought "I should not do that more than, at absolute most, once a month." It did turn out to take me about a full month before I could take what I had experienced in stride, without any lasting delusion about the nature of the real world. But I will tell you with certainty (while the article maybe over blown) there are many people, myself included, who work in SV and take great comfort in sub-threshold psychedelics. Without it, I worry too much and am a perfectionist to my detriment. With it, I can contribute without fear of judgment.

slantaclaus 10y ago

That's what psilocybin would do, maybe not lsd. Shrooms will send you to the woods though for sure

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