Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44bn and then rebranded it to the letter X. He gave his child a robot name. He spends his days posting memes and trolling fellow billionaires.

A lot of people seem to think he’s just autistic or something, but according to the NY Post the Tesla CEO’s odd and erratic decision-making could be down to his ‘escalated ketamine use’.

Musk was scrutinised in a lengthy report by journalist Ronan Farrow, who cited “associates” who have reportedly “connected his erratic behavior to efforts to self-medicate”:

“Associates suggested that Musk’s (ketamine) use has escalated in recent years, and that the drug, alongside his isolation and his increasingly embattled relationship with the press, might contribute to his tendency to make chaotic and impulsive statements and decisions.”

Which begs the question: is doing ketamine necessarily bad for your business brain? Well, maybe it depends on how much you do. Is he microdosing just to perk himself up a bit during the day, or is he getting full on blasted on the regular? Either way, the idea that he came up with ‘X’ while in a K-hole because he thought it sounded awesome is pretty funny.

Sadly, I’ve never done ketamine so I’m not really sure how it would affect the behaviour and decision-making of the richest man in the world. My initial sense is that it wouldn’t be ideal for the mind of a CEO who runs several huge companies that many people’s livelihoods are dependent on. Probably not ideal for the mind of a man who’s trying to send the human race to Mars, either. Then again, maybe the complete opposite is true. Maybe drugs are (sometimes) good.

Indeed, maybe Elon Musk’s ketamine brain is exactly what the social media world needs to be taken to the next level. I guess all we can do is hope that he’s doing just the right amount. Which probably wasn’t the case when he decided to ruin his neighbour’s life with a giant X logo.