This Is Your Mind on Plants

This book by Michael Pollan was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Tim Ferriss. It comes up in conversations about addiction & recovery, relationships. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

Three essays, each oriented around a psychotropic drug: poppy growing, coffee drinking and mescaline healing.

• “this is your mind on plants morphine caffeine and mescaline that's right yeah yes yeah yeah he talks right then yeah it's great”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “it's great”
  Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 202200:07:48

  Said during "Porn Addiction, The Corrosiveness of Secrets, and Books to Change Your Life | Jason Portnoy". The episode features Jason Portnoy: Entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author of Silicon Valley Porn Star. Early PayPal financial analyst, first CFO of Palantir Technologies, and founder of the VC firm Subtraction Capital (formerly Oakhouse Partners). Holds engineering degrees from the University of Colorado and Stanford. PayPal-era finance leader Jason Portnoy candidly traces his secret porn and sex addiction, marriage near-collapse, and the inner work that healed him.