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Do You Do Your Job on Acid?
In 1969, the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company hired him to basically program their IBM-based computers to schedule trains. He wrote out a fake resume and he got the job because there was no internet back then. After six months, McAfee system began to churn out optimized train routing patterns. One morning, he decided to experiment with another psychedelic called DMT. He did a line, felt nothing, and decided to snort a whole bag of the orange's powder. Within an hour, my mind was shattered, McAfee says. And apparently you can do your job on acid.