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Observations #14
A set of ideas and observations from a week’s worth of work analyzing businesses and technologies.
Biohacking
This is a really fascinating example of using simple biohacking tools to individually measure one’s health and lose weight — https://karpathy.github.io/2020/06/11/biohacking-lite/
Biohacking is the right to modify oneself and environment without hurting others. There are a string of posts of people taking their health in their own hand — this post is actually a less extreme version. What this post describes is what Virta Health does in some way. The potential for companies to allow individuals to actually modify their body is a huge opportunity, with a diverse set of customers, starting at simple ways to track energy expenditure and weight loss to editing one’s own genes.
From the author’s post a profound way to look at the body’s energy system is as a series of batteries of growing strength:
