[blackearl]

IMO this tells the whole story:

"Back in San Francisco, Zhu was preparing for an important meeting with a prominent investor group. Believing that limited quantities of LSD would improve his pitch, Zhu, who had never before used the drug, decided to try the microdosing plan. He took what he thought was a small amount of LSD shortly before the meeting."

That's just plain stupid.

[sokoloff]

I don't know if that the's whole story necessarily, but that and the "didn't stop talking to a reporter about internal matters after being directly asked to" is enough for me to discard the "The most likely reason Zhu was fired was anti-Asian bias" claim.

[breck]

I disagree. Doing this twice would be stupid. Doing it once is hilarious. I love this story. Good for him.

[abfan1127]

hilarious for us. dumb for him and his company. Small life lesson, try new risky things in ways that there is little downside. Want to drop some microdose of LSD? do it on a Saturday when you're doing your weeklies.

[pyjug]

Heh, so many valley people microdose openly. It's not a fireable offence. Also, that incident happened in 2019. Why fire him now?

[seriousquestion]

Agree, but still, trying it for the _first_ time in that context is... unwise.

[jamal-kumar]

because he accidentally took a macrodose and couldn't do his pitch properly

also it sounds like a litany of other things but I read this yesterday and don't recall off hand now