addendum: tech people do not understand psychedelics, and “micro-dosing” is an exercise in narcissism completely removed from the heart of what the psychedelic experience has to offer for both the individual and the society
many younger people in tech and in the society more broadly like the social cachet that comes along with having done psychedelics, but are terrified to and completely incapable of facing themselves nakedly, honestly, in total, before the light of the full experience, so micro-dosing is a perfect avenue for these folks and others, given micro-dosing’s tendency to strengthen ego-structures rather than completely obliterate them
low-dosing psychedelics to enhance productivity in one’s profession as one services the hypercapitalist tech-daemons of silicon valley is not a social good, and is in fact yet another form of economic bondage