Iterable CEO Justin Zhu ousted for taking LSD at work (opens in new tab)

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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> There is no science backing it. Any benefits are at best due to the placebo effect. Stop with this bro culture nonsense already.

Good that you're not a scientist and the research is ongoing ;)

Some stuff to read: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924977X2... https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/aop/article-10.155...

I'm not advocating microdosing btw, especially just for "focus" to be better at your job.

I don't know anything about micro dosing, but how do we know this?

Placebo or not, it works

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’m guessing he said something about it that alerted the board, or someone always knew and decided they wanted him gone now

Steve Jobs emphasized the importance of LSD, it makes sense it'd help to think outside the box.