Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

Stolaroff’s solution wasn’t to give them computers; he wanted to give them LSD. The rest of the management committee at Ampex did not think dosing their top men with a powerful and ill-understood psychedelic was a good plan, but Myron was a true believer, and he had plenty of success in casual settings turning on friends from the informal but powerful Stanford engineering fraternity, including employees from HP and SRI as well as Stanford professor Willis Harman.