I am sensing that giving them psychedelics is fuelling their ego rather than destroying their id, as hoped ,but who am i to muse on these things when there’s money to be made.
Fortune
Here’s a look into Silicon Valley’s ‘executive psychedelic slumber parties’ that cost over $3,000
For years, Elon Musk has been a proponent of using ketamine to treat depression. The Tesla CEO criticized popular antidepressant drugs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), saying they “zombify” people.
“I have a [ketamine] prescription for when my brain chemistry sometimes goes super negative,” he wrote on X in August 2023.
Musk isn’t the only high-profile executive using psychedelic drugs. They’re growing in popularity among the startup community and increasingly being used in leadership retreats and coaching.
Two co-founders of an organization offering ketamine-assisted coaching sessions in the San Francisco Bay Area revealed to WIRED the details of their operation, which caters to primarily CEOs of Fortune 100 companies, CFOs, and other C-level founders.
“They’re like, ‘OK, what’s the next horizon? Because I’ve checked pretty much every box,’” said co-founder Shuang Shuang—a self-selected pseudonym.
What is ketamine?
Ketamine, also known as the party drug Special K, was the primary cause of the death of Friends star Matthew Perry in 2023.
More at https://fortune.com/well/article/silicon-valley-executives-psychedelics-ketamine/
The same story written by Wired but the words put in a different order..
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https://www.wired.com/story/ketamine-psychedelic-slumber-parties-tech-executives/
