Before he died, there were stories about how he'd tried to single-handedly reinvent downtown Las Vegas (not the Strip). Does anyone know what happened to all that?
Zappos CEO’s final months describe drug-addicted psychosis in court documents
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#22This Zappos article is like the whole catalog of rich people problems in a nutshell: drugs, parasitic relationships, arrests, and dumb accidents. I know some people who know people who made a lot of money in the 2000s dot com boom. One of them got a "guru" who he paid several thousands of dollars a day to. The "guru" fed him Ayahuasca and people who visited the rich guy at his house said he had removed all furniture…
> This Zappos article is like the whole catalog of rich people problems in a nutshell: drugs, parasitic relationships, arrests, and dumb accidents.
Not all "rich people" have these problems. You just don't tend to hear about the ones who live normal lives.
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#23I'm strongly reminded of Howard Hughes, as mentally ill, drug-addicted prisoner of his "staff".
Howard Hughes had severe allodynia in an age in which there was no real medical treatment for it Still, to this day, there is no amazing treatment for it. Especially because there are more than a few not well understood causes of it. Some medications work well for some, but not at all for others. Hughes was, by all accounts, essentially a prisoner of his unrelenting misfiring nervous system. I think he lived out his…
For some of us:
allodynia: “Allodynia is a type of neuropathic pain (nerve pain). People with allodynia are extremely sensitive to touch. Things that don't usually cause pain can be very painful. These may include cold temperatures, brushing hair or wearing a cotton t-shirt. Allodynia can result from several conditions.”
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/21570-allodyn...
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#24I'm strongly reminded of Howard Hughes, as mentally ill, drug-addicted prisoner of his "staff".
Howard Hughes had severe allodynia in an age in which there was no real medical treatment for it Still, to this day, there is no amazing treatment for it. Especially because there are more than a few not well understood causes of it. Some medications work well for some, but not at all for others. Hughes was, by all accounts, essentially a prisoner of his unrelenting misfiring nervous system. I think he lived out his…
From the biographies I've read, it sounded like OCD was at the center - not dismissing persistent pain originating in multiple airplane crashes...
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
> NOT prone to abuse Citation needed.
I picked psilocybin for you. "Psilocybin is not considered to be addictive nor does it cause compulsive use" - [0] [0]: https://drugpolicy.org/drug-facts/are-psilocybin-mushrooms-a...
For those too lazy to follow the link:
"Psilocybin is not considered to be addictive nor does it cause compulsive use. One reason is that the intense experience, which can be physically and mentally challenging, may cause people using psilocybin to limit their frequency of use."
"Another reason is that the human body quickly builds tolerance to psilocybin, such that people require much higher doses after only a few days of repeated use, making it extremely difficult to have any effect after more than four days of repeated usage."Re: Zappos CEO’s final months describe drug-addicted psychosis in court documents
#26For those in the EU that 8newsnow blocks:
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#27I could have sworn the Zappos CEO died after being murdered by his personal assistant in New York. Who am I thinking of?
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#28> Our European visitors are important to us.
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I wonder if sites will ever stop lying about this.
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#29Anybody have a link to the court documents referenced in this news article, because I can't find it in the article itself? (As an aside I really would prefer news articles that are summarizations of other documents to please also provide the original document)
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#30This Zappos article is like the whole catalog of rich people problems in a nutshell: drugs, parasitic relationships, arrests, and dumb accidents. I know some people who know people who made a lot of money in the 2000s dot com boom. One of them got a "guru" who he paid several thousands of dollars a day to. The "guru" fed him Ayahuasca and people who visited the rich guy at his house said he had removed all furniture…
> This Zappos article is like the whole catalog of rich people problems in a nutshell: drugs, parasitic relationships, arrests, and dumb accidents. Not all "rich people" have these problems. You just don't tend to hear about the ones who live normal lives.
The point being made is that it’s hard to get by and be deep in more one of those situations if you’re poor.