Steve Jobs
| Birthname | Steven Paul Jobs |
| Date of Birth | February 24, 1955 |
| Birth Place | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, Designer, Businessman |
| Biography | Best known as the CEO and Co-Founder of Apple and CEO Pixar |
Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur, investor, and designer born in February 1955. He was the CEO and co-founder of Apple with Steve Wozniak and was the CEO of Pixar Animation studios. He is known for spearheading the personal computer revolution and creating the Macintosh, iPod, iPad, and iPhone. However, despite his colossal successes, Steve Jobs has been openly criticized for his casual use of drugs, parenting, and leadership style.
Drug Use
Jobs was no stranger to marijuana and LSD, and heavily attributes LSD to the creation of Apple. In a government security clearance interview with the Pentagon, Jobs revealed that he used to smoke and eat pot brownies with friends multiple times a week from 1973-1977. Additionally, he claimed to have “used LSD approximately ten to fifteen times” from 1972-1974. [1]
LSD https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159004/Apple-founder-Steve-Jobs-told-Pentagon-LSD-marijuana-use-1970s.html "Throughout that period of time I used the LSD approximately ten to fifteen times," from 1972-1974 “smoke it with friends and even used to eat pot brownies” “Jobs said that it helped him relax and made him more creative.”
https://healthland.time.com/2011/10/06/jobs-had-lsd-we-have-the-iphone/ Not coincidentally, that’s how people describe the experience of taking psychedelic drugs. It feels profoundly artificial yet deeply real, both high-tech and earthy-crunchy, human and mystically divine — in a word, transcendent.
found enduring inspiration in LSD
Here’s what LSD and iPhones do have in common: they make us feel divinely connected to our environments and to other people, they lift mood and bring us joy, they enrich humanity. Is that love? Maybe. But at their worst, drugs and computers can also create distance and trigger addiction, which can destroy human connection and affection.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/lsd-microdosing-california-silicon-valley-california-drugs-young-professionals-a8259001.html The practice, known as “microdosing”, involves taking minute quantities of drugs such as LSD, psilocybin (magic mushrooms) or mescaline (found in the Peyote cactus) every few days.
Manufacture and supply of illegal drugs are not subject to rigorous regulatory controls. That means users can never be sure of what they are getting.
https://www.insider.com/what-is-microdosing-2019-1 “Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”
microdosing is seen as a way to get ahead by staying productive through exhaustion or by sparking creativity.
http://www.ourtimebd.com/beta/2020/03/02/were-lsd-marijuana-the-secret-to-steve-jobs-billions/
When one uptight candidate came in for an interview, Jobs asked him, “Are you a virgin?” and “How many times have you taken LSD?” Not only did Jobs want to have colleagues who explored their own minds with psychedelics, but he also chalked up his own success to drugs.
Familial Relations https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/lisa-brennan-jobs-small-fry-steve-jobs-daughter “It’s not my kid,”
Then, in 1980, the district attorney of San Mateo County, California, sued my father for child-support payments. My father responded by denying paternity, swearing in a deposition that he was sterile and naming another man he said was my father.
The court required my father to cover welfare back payments, child-support payments of $385 per month, which he increased to $500, and medical insurance until I was 18
Four days later Apple went public and overnight my father was worth more than $200 million. “Hey, you know that computer, the Lisa? Was it named after me? “Nope.” His voice was clipped, dismissive. Like I was fishing for a compliment. “Sorry, kid.” Bono asked, “So, was the Lisa computer named after her?” There was a pause. I braced myself—prepared for his answer. My father hesitated, looked down at his plate for a long moment, and then back at Bono. “Yeah, it was,” he said. I assumed small fry meant the kind of french fries left at the bottom of the bag, cold and crusty; I thought he was calling me a runt, or misbegotten. Later, I learned fry is an old word for young fishes sometimes thrown back into the sea to give them more time to grow.
clearly I was not compelling enough for my father, this incredible man, to unequivocally own.