Eilene's comments

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

Hi geekout. I tried you via email but I have a protonmail account now. So if you want to reach me there it's [email protected] Thanks, Eilene

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

I'm going to reach out now, thanks.

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

thanks, I'd like to email you to the address in your profile, ok?

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

Thanks for clarifying. I don't have conclusions yet, but I do have ideas and didn't think my questions were leading. So apologize if they seem so. If you don't feel "pressured"--overtly or subvertly--to take a substance but just do it because you think it would be fun, then that's the answer, right? And I'll learn from that.

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

I will reach out, thank you. This is very helpful. Your last paragraph describes Peter accurately. At some point, all the years of chronic stress, too little sleep, too many stimulants (even before IV drug abuse) changed him somehow. I'm not a doctor, but I knew him for almost 30 years and over the course of a decade or so something profound changed.

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

What kind of work do you do?

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

I'm glad (for you) too.

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

Would you be comfortable giving some general details about what you do, in what kind of company you work and how long you've been in the industry? (It helps e to qualify your opinion in some way... )

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

I don't want to do a hatchet job on white collar drug use, no. I want to learn what's actually being used, the extent of the use and then draw some meaning from that, meaning that doesn't intend to say whether the use is bad or good but just why it exists and what that might mean about work culture, society, etc. If you'd be open to talking more about this separately, pls email me at [email protected]. Thanks.

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

Are you aware of others in your company or at other companies that also use cannabis as much as you? Or are you aware of people using narcotics/amphetamines?

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

How long ago was this? (also, how awful)

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

I would love to see a study too.

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

That's what I'm thinking (as I stare at a computer screen for 8 hours...)

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

If I sound like an idiot, forgive me, but you mean, literally, contractors that have to physically climb towers, right?

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

Why weed? It would seem that would make you want to hang out all day and snack, or just sleep or watch television?

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

Just realized I've reached out to Hart but have not heard back.

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

I am not trying in anyway to contribute to prohibition (and history shows it doesn't work anyway). But I'll keep your warning in mind, sincerely. And I'll track down Carl Hart. Thanks.

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

so dope meaning weed right?

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

Does that make you feel you should be using something too?

Eilene | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

understood, thanks.