“‘It completely changes how you think,’ Evan Reas of Circle told Business Insider on Wednesday. ‘About your problems, about yourself, everything. It forced me to ask, ‘Is what I’m doing important?’ ‘When you work on a problem for a long period of time, you build up biases and filters and it becomes harder to get fresh thoughts. Mushrooms eliminates those biases.’ Psychedelic substances are no stranger in the tech industry. Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs said in 2005 that doing LSD was one of the most important experiences in his life. Douglas Englebart, the father of the computer mouse, also experimented with LSD, as did Microsoft founder Bill Gates.”
