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Bill Gates says Steve Jobs told him he should've taken acid

3 pointsby benkan3 months ago

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eesmith3 months ago
It&#x27;s very odd to read a piece which only talks about Jobs in the post-1990 sense (&quot;Jobs was considered a visionary who revolutionized product design in the 1990s and 00s&quot;), with little awareness of what Jobs did in the 1970s and 1980s.<p>FWIW, lots of people knew Jobs used LSD, as did others at Apple, and he didn&#x27;t care to keep the topic secret.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Steve_Jobs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Steve_Jobs</a><p>&gt; By his senior year of high school, Jobs began using LSD. ... After seven months, Jobs left India ... During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics, later calling his LSD experiences &quot;one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life&quot;.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.folklore.org&#x2F;Gobble_Gobble_Gobble.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.folklore.org&#x2F;Gobble_Gobble_Gobble.html</a><p>&gt; For example, Burrell, Steve and I interviewed Angeline Lo&#x27;s former manager ... I could tell that Steve was losing patience when he started to roll his eyes at the candidate&#x27;s responses. Steve began to grill him with some unconventional questions. ...<p>&gt; Steve changed the subject. &quot;How many times have you taken LSD?&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.folklore.org&#x2F;Joining_Apple_Computer.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.folklore.org&#x2F;Joining_Apple_Computer.html</a><p>&gt; Steve Jobs and I became close friends. ...<p>&gt; Inspired by a mind-expanding LSD journey in 1985, I designed the HyperCard authoring system that enabled non-programmers to make their own interactive media.