Both wealth and drugs can cause small personality quirks, & slight mental instability, to grow in unchecked proportions.
Synergistically, especially, they can separate people from familiar moderating social situations, and introduce them to riskier situations & exploitative scenes.
Having already become a multibillionaire, it's not clear to me that Hsieh was still driven by any remaining desire or "peer pressure" to "overachieve". He rather seemed unmoored from usual social pressures or limits, and thus unchecked in how absurd his 'business' dealings, personal relationships, & self-exploration could become.
Had Hsieh still been seeking conventional success, or "work"/"achievements" legible to sane peers, he may have moderated his actions, or at least not cut himself off from people offering valid concerns.
Synergistically, especially, they can separate people from familiar moderating social situations, and introduce them to riskier situations & exploitative scenes.
Having already become a multibillionaire, it's not clear to me that Hsieh was still driven by any remaining desire or "peer pressure" to "overachieve". He rather seemed unmoored from usual social pressures or limits, and thus unchecked in how absurd his 'business' dealings, personal relationships, & self-exploration could become.
Had Hsieh still been seeking conventional success, or "work"/"achievements" legible to sane peers, he may have moderated his actions, or at least not cut himself off from people offering valid concerns.