"I have tons of horror stories from people I know or know of. They try it, and they kind of come out the other end as a changed person. They come out much more at peace, but then they also tend to quit their companies, and they move to Indonesia and become a surf instructor."
"And in true Huberman kind of wise Yoda style, he's like, 'Well, you know, how do you know they're not happier?' Maybe the thing that was driving them to be a great entrepreneur was a fundamental level of insecurity."
Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz, has declined to use psychedelics despite their growing popularity in Silicon Valley. He cites numerous accounts of founders experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs like ayahuasca who experience increased peace and reduced anxiety but subsequently lose interest in their companies and relocate to pursue alternative lifestyles such as becoming surf instructors. Andreessen discussed this pattern with neuroscientist Andrew Huberman, who suggested that reduced anxiety might actually benefit founders' happiness. However, Andreessen theorizes that entrepreneurial drive may stem from underlying insecurity. Rather than psychedelics, Andreessen relies on caffeine as his preferred stimulant, having consumed enough coffee to cause cardiac arrhythmias.
#psychedelics-in-tech #silicon-valley-culture #entrepreneurship-and-mental-health #caffeine-use #ayahuasca
Read at Business Insider
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]