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Knew that name sounded familiar.. Margaret Mead was one of the 'core group' members of the Macy Conference(s) in Cybernetics [0], whose other members included s

by pizza 3y ago

Knew that name sounded familiar.. Margaret Mead was one of the 'core group' members of the Macy Conference(s) in Cybernetics [0], whose other members included such people as John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Walter Pitts, Warren McCulloch.. [0] https://asc-cybernetics.org/foundations/history/MacyPeople.htm https://asc-cybernetics.org/foundations/history/MacyPeople.h...

samstave 3y ago
Also a wonderful anaecdote, WRT LSD and Tech - when Hoffman's 100th birthday happened they had an interview with one of the founders/first employees of Cisco, and he stated they were against drug testing, because they discovered the logic for BGP and RIP routing protocols in epiphanies due to LSD. Also, there is this letter from Hoffman to Jobs: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/read-the-never-before-pub_b_227887 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/read-the-never-before-pub_b_2...
- krispyfi 3y ago
  That Cisco anecdote is pretty great! Do you have a source or any additional keywords I might be able to use to search for it?
  - samstave 3y ago
    >>>BASEL, Switzerland – When Kevin Herbert has a particularly intractable programming problem, or finds himself pondering a big career decision, he deploys a powerful mind expanding tool – LSD-25. "It must be changing something about the internal communication in my brain. Whatever my inner process is that lets me solve problems, it works differently, or maybe different parts of my brain are used, " said Herbert, 42, an early employee of Cisco Systems who says he solved his toughest technical problems while tripping to drum solos by the Grateful Dead – who were among the many artists inspired by LSD. "When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing," said Herbert who intervened to ban drug testing of technologists at Cisco Systems. https://web.archive.org/web/20180223065640/https://www.wired.com/2006/01/lsd-the-geeks-wonder-drug/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180223065640/https://www.wired... --- Kevin Herbert - https://maps.org/news-letters/v18n1/v18n1-MAPS_21-23.pdf https://maps.org/news-letters/v18n1/v18n1-MAPS_21-23.pdf

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samstave 3y ago

Also a wonderful anaecdote, WRT LSD and Tech - when Hoffman's 100th birthday happened they had an interview with one of the founders/first employees of Cisco, and he stated they were against drug testing, because they discovered the logic for BGP and RIP routing protocols in epiphanies due to LSD. Also, there is this letter from Hoffman to Jobs: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/read-the-never-before-pub_b_227887 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/read-the-never-before-pub_b_2...

krispyfi 3y ago
That Cisco anecdote is pretty great! Do you have a source or any additional keywords I might be able to use to search for it?
- samstave 3y ago
  >>>BASEL, Switzerland – When Kevin Herbert has a particularly intractable programming problem, or finds himself pondering a big career decision, he deploys a powerful mind expanding tool – LSD-25. "It must be changing something about the internal communication in my brain. Whatever my inner process is that lets me solve problems, it works differently, or maybe different parts of my brain are used, " said Herbert, 42, an early employee of Cisco Systems who says he solved his toughest technical problems while tripping to drum solos by the Grateful Dead – who were among the many artists inspired by LSD. "When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing," said Herbert who intervened to ban drug testing of technologists at Cisco Systems. https://web.archive.org/web/20180223065640/https://www.wired.com/2006/01/lsd-the-geeks-wonder-drug/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180223065640/https://www.wired... --- Kevin Herbert - https://maps.org/news-letters/v18n1/v18n1-MAPS_21-23.pdf https://maps.org/news-letters/v18n1/v18n1-MAPS_21-23.pdf