Isn’t it a funny coincidence how both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates went trippin’ balls on acid in their younger days?
From the Wiki entry on Steve Jobs comes this little gem:
In the autumn of 1974, Jobs returned to California and began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Steve Wozniak. He took a job as a technician at Atari, a manufacturer of popular video games, with the primary intent of saving money for a spiritual retreat to India.
Jobs then backpacked around India with a Reed College friend (and, later, the first Apple employee), Daniel Kottke, in search of philosophical enlightenment. He came back with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing. During this time, Jobs experimented with LSD, calling these experiences “one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life.”
The movie, Pirates of Silicon Valley, portrays Jobs’ use (YouTube).
Then there’s this old Playboy interview (4/5 the way down the page)with Bill gates wherein he sheepishly admits to taking the drug.
Did LSD use lead to the biggest industrial revolution of human history? I’d like to think not. Rather, people who are attracted to viewing the world through a different lens are likely to be attracted to psychedelic use. Nevertheless, this fact is interesting, and should prove helpful when conversation at your next dinner party finds itself in an awkward silence.
Related: Jack Black Trips Balls in the desert (YouTube)
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