Dearest Elon: Get Off Drugs

oscar
3 min readFeb 5, 2024

I know you think they make you more productive. That the stimulation you get from them give you precious insights you would not have had without.
You’re sadly wrong and delude yourself to think that your brain won’t suffer.
TSLA stock is down. Talk in the markets is that the company should no longer be considered one of the Magnificent Seven.
The Chinese are going to give you plenty of competition with their ramped up EV production and their worldwide distribution.
You’ve surrounded yourself with people who’re not telling you to quit the drugs.
That adds to the problem.
There are signs that you’re becoming erratic, overly impulsive, your judgment impaired as seen in inappropriate responses to questions.
Your companies, all of them, are bound to suffer if you continue using drugs.
The WSJ had a story on the front page over the weekend about how chummy you’ve become with fellow board members and how some have joined with you in the drug using.
Reading the article made me feel sad. Curiously, you looked lonely and emotionally impoverished in the photo for the article. All those billions are not giving you the protection you really need.
A couple of years ago or more, there was the sad story of a very successful businessman in Vegas, who’d built great wealth selling shoes, who took a turn to the drugs and ended up psychotic and died when the home he was living in burnt down.
He, too, had lots of friends who loved…

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oscar

Writer and psychiatrist. Writing is thinking -> integrating -> connecting -> enhancing our being. Though we can think without writing.