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Maxim Tvorun-Dunn

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Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

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It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

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It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

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It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

For a lot of people, I think work and career has almost taken up the place that religious community might have taken in their lives in previous generations. So I think some people do feel this sense of spiritual emptiness and they're casting around for like, how do I give some sort of structure to wanting to ask like deeper questions about spiritual meaning?

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

For a lot of people, I think work and career has almost taken up the place that religious community might have taken in their lives in previous generations. So I think some people do feel this sense of spiritual emptiness and they're casting around for like, how do I give some sort of structure to wanting to ask like deeper questions about spiritual meaning?

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

For a lot of people, I think work and career has almost taken up the place that religious community might have taken in their lives in previous generations. So I think some people do feel this sense of spiritual emptiness and they're casting around for like, how do I give some sort of structure to wanting to ask like deeper questions about spiritual meaning?

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

Just to like touch on the science for a second, I think it's not surprising some people are turning to psychedelics because... literally of the effect that they have on the brain. Because typically I think what our brains do is it's almost like a zip file. Like they're trying to compress all the information that's coming in and make it digestible for us and like zip it all up and condense it.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

Just to like touch on the science for a second, I think it's not surprising some people are turning to psychedelics because... literally of the effect that they have on the brain. Because typically I think what our brains do is it's almost like a zip file. Like they're trying to compress all the information that's coming in and make it digestible for us and like zip it all up and condense it.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

Just to like touch on the science for a second, I think it's not surprising some people are turning to psychedelics because... literally of the effect that they have on the brain. Because typically I think what our brains do is it's almost like a zip file. Like they're trying to compress all the information that's coming in and make it digestible for us and like zip it all up and condense it.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

And what psychedelics do is basically the opposite. So they like flood our brain with information and make connections within the brain that normally wouldn't happen. And so people might actually come to realizations or ask questions that they wouldn't be able to do without psychedelics.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

And what psychedelics do is basically the opposite. So they like flood our brain with information and make connections within the brain that normally wouldn't happen. And so people might actually come to realizations or ask questions that they wouldn't be able to do without psychedelics.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

And what psychedelics do is basically the opposite. So they like flood our brain with information and make connections within the brain that normally wouldn't happen. And so people might actually come to realizations or ask questions that they wouldn't be able to do without psychedelics.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

That being said, I think some people turn to psychedelics instead of climbing this staircase of expanding your consciousness and asking deeper questions. You're just trying to get in an elevator and like zoom right to the top floor.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

That being said, I think some people turn to psychedelics instead of climbing this staircase of expanding your consciousness and asking deeper questions. You're just trying to get in an elevator and like zoom right to the top floor.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

That being said, I think some people turn to psychedelics instead of climbing this staircase of expanding your consciousness and asking deeper questions. You're just trying to get in an elevator and like zoom right to the top floor.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

But that's like missing all the work of like climbing and the exertion that actually comes from grappling with some of the questions that people might be trying to answer.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

But that's like missing all the work of like climbing and the exertion that actually comes from grappling with some of the questions that people might be trying to answer.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

But that's like missing all the work of like climbing and the exertion that actually comes from grappling with some of the questions that people might be trying to answer.

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

It's really wild because I did find actually in doing research for this story that actually there is sort of a long history to that kind of corporate, you know, bent to psychedelics, which I found really interesting because in the 1950s when America was first being introduced to psychedelics,

It's Been a Minute
Why tech bros worship psychedelics (and think you should too)

It's really wild because I did find actually in doing research for this story that actually there is sort of a long history to that kind of corporate, you know, bent to psychedelics, which I found really interesting because in the 1950s when America was first being introduced to psychedelics,

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