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nope on dope. especially for start ups and entreprenures Do you think the Google guys were taking bong breaks between writing code? My opinion is hacking + bu

nope on dope. especially for start ups and entreprenures Do you think the Google guys were taking bong breaks between writing code? My opinion is hacking + business needs a mind as sharp as a samurai sword

jpierce420 17y ago
No, but the Google guys are taking LSD, because they are definitely tripping right now!
- FishSpine 17y ago
  I guess they are taking Steve Jobs' advice to heart.
  - jpierce420 17y ago
    hahaha good one!
zimbabwe 17y ago
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both dropped acid. I'd bet they both did weed, too. The magic secret of entrepreneurship is that the people with big ideas and strong work ethics know who they are already, and them doing drugs doesn't stop them from being themselves. Similarly, avoiding drugs doesn't instantly give you power.
- tokenadult 17y ago
  Evidence for the biographical statement in your post?
  - zimbabwe 17y ago
    http://beginnersinvest.about.com/od/billgates/l/blbillgatesint5.htm http://beginnersinvest.about.com/od/billgates/l/blbillgatesi... PLAYBOY: Ever take LSD? GATES: My errant youth ended a long time ago. PLAYBOY: What does that mean? GATES: That means there were things I did under the age of 25 that I ended up not doing subsequently. PLAYBOY: One LSD story involved you staring at a table and thinking the corner was going to plunge into your eye. GATES: [Smiles] PLAYBOY: Ah, a glimmer of recognition. GATES: That was on the other side of that boundary. The young mind can deal with certain kinds of gooping around that I don't think at this age I could. I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work. Hopefully I don't have to provide evidence of Steve Jobs's drug-using past, since that's a famous part of hacker history. The Gates admission surprised me, though: I just discovered it a few days ago from the Hacker News post about Jobs's relationship with Timothy Leary.
    - rbanffy 17y ago
      Knowing Bill Gates used LSD just made the drug even less attractive than it was before... I don't want to be like him. ;-)
      - rbanffy 17y ago
        Interesting. Apparently two people here want to be like him (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-415786940752241012 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-415786940752241012). This is deeply disturbing.
- aswanson 17y ago
  It would stop them from existing if they overdose or have a bad trip and don't come back.
  - zimbabwe 17y ago
    That's a ridiculous counterargument. I drive, though an accident might kill me. I work out, despite the off-chance of a work-related heart attack. There are no overdose-related deaths in the history of marijuana. Ever. You could smoke your weight in weed and not die. Similarly, nobody's ever died from LSD (I can't think of another drug whose usage leads to "trips"), and I can't recall ever reading of a bad trip from which you "don't come back".
    - aswanson 17y ago
      You spoke of LSD in the GP and that is what I am speaking of. Of course there are no stories of overdoses of marijuana, but that's a straw man because, again, you spoke of lsd. Did it ever occur to you that those who trip and dont come back can't tell you what they did because they're gone? A large number of mentally destablized homeless in the San Fran area from the Haight-Ashbury era seem to suggest that there are serious long-term effects with the ingestion of LSD.
      - zimbabwe 17y ago
        I spoke of LSD with the implication that LSD is much worse than marijuana in terms of lasting effects (flashbacks in this case). I used it only to provide some frame of reference in the real argument, which is over marijuana. You went after my mentioning LSD despite weed being the topic here. That's a straw man, if you care about being syntactically correct. Find me the story of somebody who was "lost" in LSD and I'll respond to it. Right now you're spreading FUD. There is proof of LSD flashback. There is no proof of people getting "lost" in trips. There certainly is proof of LSD aggravating people with mental instability, but instability exists without drugs.
        sgibat 17y ago

jpierce420 17y ago

No, but the Google guys are taking LSD, because they are definitely tripping right now!

FishSpine 17y ago
I guess they are taking Steve Jobs' advice to heart.
- jpierce420 17y ago
  hahaha good one!

zimbabwe 17y ago

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both dropped acid. I'd bet they both did weed, too. The magic secret of entrepreneurship is that the people with big ideas and strong work ethics know who they are already, and them doing drugs doesn't stop them from being themselves. Similarly, avoiding drugs doesn't instantly give you power.

tokenadult 17y ago
Evidence for the biographical statement in your post?
- zimbabwe 17y ago
  http://beginnersinvest.about.com/od/billgates/l/blbillgatesint5.htm http://beginnersinvest.about.com/od/billgates/l/blbillgatesi... PLAYBOY: Ever take LSD? GATES: My errant youth ended a long time ago. PLAYBOY: What does that mean? GATES: That means there were things I did under the age of 25 that I ended up not doing subsequently. PLAYBOY: One LSD story involved you staring at a table and thinking the corner was going to plunge into your eye. GATES: [Smiles] PLAYBOY: Ah, a glimmer of recognition. GATES: That was on the other side of that boundary. The young mind can deal with certain kinds of gooping around that I don't think at this age I could. I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work. Hopefully I don't have to provide evidence of Steve Jobs's drug-using past, since that's a famous part of hacker history. The Gates admission surprised me, though: I just discovered it a few days ago from the Hacker News post about Jobs's relationship with Timothy Leary.
  - rbanffy 17y ago
    Knowing Bill Gates used LSD just made the drug even less attractive than it was before... I don't want to be like him. ;-)
    - rbanffy 17y ago
      Interesting. Apparently two people here want to be like him (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-415786940752241012 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-415786940752241012). This is deeply disturbing.
aswanson 17y ago
It would stop them from existing if they overdose or have a bad trip and don't come back.
- zimbabwe 17y ago
  That's a ridiculous counterargument. I drive, though an accident might kill me. I work out, despite the off-chance of a work-related heart attack. There are no overdose-related deaths in the history of marijuana. Ever. You could smoke your weight in weed and not die. Similarly, nobody's ever died from LSD (I can't think of another drug whose usage leads to "trips"), and I can't recall ever reading of a bad trip from which you "don't come back".
  - aswanson 17y ago
    You spoke of LSD in the GP and that is what I am speaking of. Of course there are no stories of overdoses of marijuana, but that's a straw man because, again, you spoke of lsd. Did it ever occur to you that those who trip and dont come back can't tell you what they did because they're gone? A large number of mentally destablized homeless in the San Fran area from the Haight-Ashbury era seem to suggest that there are serious long-term effects with the ingestion of LSD.
    - zimbabwe 17y ago
      I spoke of LSD with the implication that LSD is much worse than marijuana in terms of lasting effects (flashbacks in this case). I used it only to provide some frame of reference in the real argument, which is over marijuana. You went after my mentioning LSD despite weed being the topic here. That's a straw man, if you care about being syntactically correct. Find me the story of somebody who was "lost" in LSD and I'll respond to it. Right now you're spreading FUD. There is proof of LSD flashback. There is no proof of people getting "lost" in trips. There certainly is proof of LSD aggravating people with mental instability, but instability exists without drugs.
      - sgibat 17y ago