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

by benkan on 2/10/25, 8:07 AM with 1 comments

• by eesmith on 2/10/25, 8:49 AM

  It's very odd to read a piece which only talks about Jobs in the post-1990 sense ("Jobs was considered a visionary who revolutionized product design in the 1990s and 00s"), with little awareness of what Jobs did in the 1970s and 1980s.

  FWIW, lots of people knew Jobs used LSD, as did others at Apple, and he didn't care to keep the topic secret.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

  > 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 "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life".

  https://www.folklore.org/Gobble_Gobble_Gobble.html

  > For example, Burrell, Steve and I interviewed Angeline Lo's former manager ... I could tell that Steve was losing patience when he started to roll his eyes at the candidate's responses. Steve began to grill him with some unconventional questions. ...

  > Steve changed the subject. "How many times have you taken LSD?"

  https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html

  > Steve Jobs and I became close friends. ...

  > 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.