Future Literacy

My new endeavor, Project Blueprint, aims to measure all 70 organs of my body and then maximally reverse the quantified biological age of…

This week at Kernel, we’ve been circulating an executive summary on the cognitive effects of Covid-19, some suspected mechanisms, and…

Web Summit, Nov. 6th 2017. Lisbon, Portugal.

Increasing the probability that the human race will thrive.

Ginkgo Bioworks, based in Boston, has been in the headlines lately:

This article is part of a series about how OS Fund (OSF) companies are radically redefining our future by rewriting the operating systems…

Update (10/21): Project Blueprint has my latest dietary protocol.

Imagine this scenario. You’re at an acquaintance’s house for a social gathering. There are six of you. Conversation flow is light hearted…

Power laws are manifest everywhere. For example (and ~):

How does one come up with a truly original idea? One that reshapes society for centuries.

I bet you know…

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.” A. N. Whitehead

Last month, I surpassed 1,000 age reduction points. Total is now 1,217. A point is gained every time one of my biological organs measures…

There’s money to be made and lives to be saved with the tiny stuff that’s all around us.

When I was approached to join Kernel, a startup building brain interfaces, I was hesitant. I knew that the path to commercialize this…

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…

This article is part of a series about how OS Fund (OSF) companies are radically redefining our future by rewriting the operating systems…

We need future literacy to survive.

My life objective is to get us on the path to cognitive expanse, out of the Cognitive Paleolithic. What does that mean and how can we get…

Been on Blueprint for nine months now. A quick glance at a few markers:

OS Fund portfolio company Pivot Bio made an exciting announcement that is a proof point of our thesis: companies commercializing deep tech…

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…

Synthego allow any researcher to access state of the art CRISPR gene editing technology at scale.

It’s hard to know how future generations will look back at us. What are we doing right? What problems are we missing, right in front of our…

Following the acquisition, a single question mattered to me:

Applying computational advances to improve drug discovery is one of the most promising areas in healthcare. Data-informed decisions can…

A challenge worthy of the greatest hearts and minds of our generation

Using the DunedinPACE speed of aging algorithm, built from a multi-decade longitudinal study, I reduced my speed of aging by the equivalent…

I was mentioned in an article about the different mindsets maintained by entrepreneurs and investors. The question was: Is it helpful to do…