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Project Blueprint
Project Blueprint
My new endeavor, Project Blueprint, aims to measure all 70 organs of my body and then maximally reverse the quantified biological age of…
Bryan Johnson
Oct 13, 2021
A Project Warp Speed for Our Minds
A Project Warp Speed for Our Minds
This week at Kernel, we’ve been circulating an executive summary on the cognitive effects of Covid-19, some suspected mechanisms, and…
Bryan Johnson
Jan 25, 2021
Rebooting the Brain
Rebooting the Brain
Web Summit, Nov. 6th 2017. Lisbon, Portugal.
Bryan Johnson
Nov 14, 2017
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OS Fund — Building A Global Biological Immune System
OS Fund — Building A Global Biological Immune System
Increasing the probability that the human race will thrive.
Bryan Johnson
May 14, 2018
Re-writing Nature’s Recipe Book: How Ginkgo Bioworks is Poised to Upset Almost Every Industry You…
Re-writing Nature’s Recipe Book: How Ginkgo Bioworks is Poised to Upset Almost Every Industry You…
Ginkgo Bioworks, based in Boston, has been in the headlines lately:
Bryan Johnson
Aug 21, 2018
Thinking Outside of the Evolutionary Box: How Arzeda is Re-Imagining Proteins, the Building Blocks…
Thinking Outside of the Evolutionary Box: How Arzeda is Re-Imagining Proteins, the Building Blocks…
This article is part of a series about how OS Fund (OSF) companies are radically redefining our future by rewriting the operating systems…
Bryan Johnson
Jul 24, 2018
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A Plan For Humanity
A Plan For Humanity
We need future literacy to survive.
Bryan Johnson
May 15, 2018
How much water should I drink?
How much water should I drink?
Imagine this scenario. You’re at an acquaintance’s house for a social gathering. There are six of you. Conversation flow is light hearted…
Bryan Johnson
Oct 7, 2022
My Goal Alignment Problem
My Goal Alignment Problem
Dear Reader,
Bryan Johnson
Feb 10, 2021
Changing Our Minds One Attebyte At a Time
Changing Our Minds One Attebyte At a Time
Imagine a future where we can quantify, and understand, all of our brain’s activity.
Bryan Johnson
Apr 19, 2018
One meal, 23 hr fast, 100% nutrition.
One meal, 23 hr fast, 100% nutrition.
Update (10/21): Project Blueprint has my latest dietary protocol.
Bryan Johnson
May 1, 2021
The Future You That You Least Suspect
The Future You That You Least Suspect
The other night my teenage boys asked me what was on my mind (likely looking for material to make fun of me. Just kidding, they’re…
Bryan Johnson
Feb 26, 2019
Doing Good Tech Versus Doing Good With Tech
Doing Good Tech Versus Doing Good With Tech
Bryan Johnson
Oct 7, 2015
Zeroth-Principles Thinking
Zeroth-Principles Thinking
How does one come up with a truly original idea? One that reshapes society for centuries.
Bryan Johnson
Mar 9, 2021
The combination of human and artificial intelligence will define humanity’s future
The combination of human and artificial intelligence will define humanity’s future
Through the past few decades of summer blockbuster movies and Silicon Valley products, artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly…
Bryan Johnson
Oct 12, 2016
How fast are you aging?
How fast are you aging?
I bet you know…
Bryan Johnson
Nov 8, 2022
Autonomous Self
Autonomous Self
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.” A. N. Whitehead
Bryan Johnson
Feb 18, 2021
Beyond the Hard Drive: Encoding Data in DNA
Beyond the Hard Drive: Encoding Data in DNA
This article is part of a series about how OS Fund (OSF) companies are radically redefining our future by rewriting the operating systems…
Bryan Johnson
Jul 10, 2018
It’s Time to Update America’s Ideological Software
It’s Time to Update America’s Ideological Software
On the occasion of Columbus Day — a time when we contemplate U.S. historic symbols — I am reposting an article I wrote earlier this year…
Bryan Johnson
Oct 12, 2015
The power law of good behavior
The power law of good behavior
Power laws are manifest everywhere. For example (and ~):
Bryan Johnson
Nov 17, 2022
The Urgency of Cognitive Improvement
The Urgency of Cognitive Improvement
I recently gave a talk at the reCode conference titled “What If: The Next Frontier of Human Aspiration.” Focusing on the brain warrants the…
Bryan Johnson
Jun 14, 2017
13 Steps to Cognitive “Perfection”
13 Steps to Cognitive “Perfection”
Hi, my name is Bryan Johnson, and I have a problem. My brain is critically flawed. I see other people’s cognitive errors but can’t see my…
Bryan Johnson
Apr 24, 2018
Sleep and Impulse Control
Sleep and Impulse Control
It’s 7 pm. A freshly baked sugar cookie stares back at me. The doughy middle revealing itself in seductive allure. The sugar formed in…
Bryan Johnson
Feb 4, 2021
Why I Don’t Listen To What My Employees Tell Me
Why I Don’t Listen To What My Employees Tell Me
It was at an annual company holiday party when I discovered I was no longer interested in listening to what my employees told me.
Bryan Johnson
Jul 28, 2015
100 Years Later: What Shackleton’s grueling Antarctic expedition can teach entrepreneurs
100 Years Later: What Shackleton’s grueling Antarctic expedition can teach entrepreneurs
On this date, exactly 100 years ago, Sir Ernest Shackleton was in a world of trouble. The veteran polar explorer had sailed off for…
Bryan Johnson
Jun 29, 2015
How NuMat is Engineering the Building Blocks of the Future, One Molecule at a Time
How NuMat is Engineering the Building Blocks of the Future, One Molecule at a Time
This article is part of a series about how OS Fund (OSF) companies are radically redefining our future by rewriting the operating systems…
Bryan Johnson
Jun 26, 2018
How My Mom Stopped Worrying about AI
How My Mom Stopped Worrying about AI
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in an essay in June’s issue of The Atlantic, joined a growing chorus of people warning us…
Bryan Johnson
May 29, 2018
After the Biofuel Fail, Does Synthetic Biology Have a Future?
After the Biofuel Fail, Does Synthetic Biology Have a Future?
In March of 2015, Newsweek tweeted: “Synbio was going to save the world. Now it’s being used to make vanilla flavoring.” Synthetic biology…
Bryan Johnson
Jul 23, 2015
A New Era of Industrial Engineering: Using Biology
A New Era of Industrial Engineering: Using Biology
Ginkgo Bioworks is working to make biology a predictable programming language.
Bryan Johnson
Mar 18, 2015
The most incredible technology you’ve never seen
The most incredible technology you’ve never seen
There’s money to be made and lives to be saved with the tiny stuff that’s all around us.
Bryan Johnson
Nov 14, 2018
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