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Bryan Johnson

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[Wikipedia] Bryan Johnson is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, writer and author. He is the founder and former CEO of Kernel, a company creating devices that monitor and record brain activity, and OS Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage science and technology companies.

Quotes by Bryan Johnson

The quicker we can make radically improving our brains the single highest priority of the human race, the more effective we will…

Everything

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I burn inside with an ambition that feels out of place in the early 21st century.

Ambition

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The discovery that we can program our existence and author our own lives has radically altered my life - transforming my identity,…

Books

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When humans can measure something, the first thing that always happens: an ecosystem of ideas and, eventually, industry springs up around it.

Always

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As much as I admire the greats of industry and technology, as a founder-CEO who built a company on the three pillars…

Admire

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I'm not a biohacker. I'm not an optimization person. I'm an explorer, about the future of being human.

Being human

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When we consider the future of the human species, we can do better than relying upon the least evolved, amygdalar, reptilian parts…

Better

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One way to go about revolution is not trying to change the system within, but trying to build a new system.

Change

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I am insatiably curious and love surrounding myself with people with whom I can ask questions for hours.

Ask questions

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Being ruthlessly honest is risky, awkward, and uncomfortable - for nearly all of us. There's really no getting around it.

Around

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For political leaders, the tools of creation are powerful institutions, memorable words, enduring symbols, and perhaps most importantly, their own mythologized personas.…

Creation

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At OS Fund, we don't invest in particular problems. Instead of trying to solve energy or climate change or the spread of…

Change

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The mind-bending fact that a common shrub is more advanced than the latest MacBook Pro is overlooked by almost everyone. We fail…

Eye

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The body's organs and biological processes begin accumulating aging damage at different ages and speeds. The older you get, the faster aging…

Aging

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Personally, I have always thought that anything that would help us all live longer, healthier lives is a good technology. But what…

Good

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When I was building my payments company, Braintree, the online payments experience was awful. So you'd get a cab, and the wifi…

Beautiful

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My primary objective with Blueprint is to explore the future of being human. Food, supplements, sleep and exercise are necessary for life,…

Attention

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My proposition is that as entrepreneurs and investors, rather than focusing on doing good with technology, let's instead focus on building good…

Business

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I grew up in this Mormon household where I was told there's a God and this God has a plan and if…

Amazing

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Whenever I get in my car, I say to myself: 'This is the most dangerous thing I'll do today.'

Car

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Because I run Kernel, my thoughts are focused on understanding how to improve our cognitive abilities. Of all our cognitive capacities, I…

Focus

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It's terrifically hard to change what we can't measure.

Change

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Transitioning and finding flow in my cognitive stride from when I sold Braintree in 2013 to building OS Fund and Kernel in…

Building

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It's devastating to watch someone you love lose their humanhood right before their eyes.

Eyes

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When people say, 'From first principles... ' to start their argument, what they mean is that they wish to assume as few…

Frame

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