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Very cool. Loved the photos!

Those goalposts gave me whiplash.

He was a pretty smart guy who said some smart things.

It is entirely possibly to retire at 40 earning $200k (~ $139k net). If you spend $60k a year (I live in Sunnyvale and spend $30k a year) then you have a savings rate of a bit over 55%. A 55% savings rate has an expected time to financial independence of 14.5 years.

You could easily be a multimillionaire by 40 with those numbers. If you spent as much as me it would take about 6 years.

Absolutely, taking LSD can end poorly. There is plenty of evidence for it. Some people view their experiences during a trip as more important than their daily lives, and down that way lives nothing good.

In fact, the morning after my first trip on LSD I thought "I should not do that more than, at absolute most, once a month." It did turn out to take me about a full month before I could take what I had experienced in stride, without any lasting delusion about the nature of the real world.

But I will tell you with certainty (while the article maybe over blown) there are many people, myself included, who work in SV and take great comfort in sub-threshold psychedelics. Without it, I worry too much and am a perfectionist to my detriment. With it, I can contribute without fear of judgment.

Thankfully an entire generation of users has helped answer the question of whether or not LSD is safe.

Go take a sugar pill and 50ug of LSD and tell me which one is a placebo.

The trip from LSD lasts many hours. The peace of mind lasts for days. That calm can let a person relax when they elsewise would not be able to. The obvious analogy (though it isnt perfect) is that a vacation helps you even once you are back at work: even once the LSD has worn off the fresh memory of being at peace with yourself can help marvelously.

At that, between LSD and meditation, I've had much stronger and longer lasting effects from LSD.

While I strongly recommend meditation for absolutely everyone, and would not make such an unconditional statement for LSD, but it is an absolute mistake to disregard how powerful of a positive force LSD can be in a person's life.

Traditional IRA's are more appealing than they seem, even for low income earners. It is entirely possible to pay $0 tax on withdraw from a traditional IRA.

https://www.kitces.com/blog/understanding-the-mechanics-of-t...

The attractiveness of a traditional IRA only increases as your marginal tax rate does.