It's ok to use caffeine at work. It's ok to have a beer at lunch and go back to work. People take various prescribed drugs while at work, including opiates. I suspect micro dosing LSD is a scapegoat for some other issue that got him fired.
Except when it becomes a "thing", in the workplace, in executive circles, down the business chain: people are talking about this; the board has heard about Zhu and LSD from people outside the company; an employee caught him "doing it" and mentioned it to HR who brought it to the board's attention. Someone said he sounded "funny" in the last board meeting. Etc. When it's a "thing", and this "thing" is, after all, illegal, it cannot be ignored because ignoring it becomes an active decision to condone or even collude.
I find it hilarious that inbetween Alex Jones' schizophrenic rants he seemed to have touched on a nugget of wisdom by saying that the government is giving LSD to people in order to get in touch with higher entities (for technological ideas and so on). I mean that's most likely not what's happening but LSD does seem to make me much more creative at problem solving, and it ties to the idea that most of your useful ideas come when you drop your ego and thinking and just sleep on the problem.
> Zhu said he was experimenting by taking a limited amount of the drug, or microdosing, in an effort to boost his focus.
/facepalm
Microdosing is not a thing. It has never been a thing. There is no science backing it. Any benefits are at best due to the placebo effect. Stop with this tech bro culture nonsense already.
Could you please not post in the flamewar style like this, regardless of how wrong others are or you feel they are? It degrades discussion, and we're trying for the opposite direction here.
There's probably something to this part though. I was just listening to a podcast about therapeutic uses of hallucinogens. But there is a subculture of "bio hackers" or people attempting to improve mental capacity.
- Implanted a magnet into my finger.
- Implanted CC chip under my skin.
- Look I'm micro dosing without any doctor supervision.
- Look at the stick of grass fed butter I put into my coffee.
We have, even today, unless something came out yesterday - NO scientific model for what psychadelics do to the brain. We do know that they can cause the contents of the brain to become permanently damaged. We suspect they may have some beneficial effects in unclear scenarios to specific brains. Thats it.
Research had lots of problems with placebo control in the past due to the illegal status of psychedelics. There are only a few studies that are properly placebo-controlled just yet. See my comment above. The commenter might not be right at what he's claiming.
