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Bryan Johnson

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Bryan Johnson says the quickest way to improve our brains is the top priority for humanity. He talks about programming our own lives, which reshapes his identity and goals. He also argues that real change comes from building new systems rather than trying to fix the old ones.

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Bryan Johnson is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, writer and author who founded the brain‑monitoring company Kernel and the OS Fund.

About Bryan Johnson

Bryan Johnson is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, writer and author. He founded Kernel, a company that builds devices to monitor and record brain activity, and served as its chief executive officer. He also started the OS Fund, a venture‑capital firm that puts money into early‑stage science and technology companies.

Quotes by Bryan Johnson

Biologists are the engineers of the future.

Biologists

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AI is both awe inspiring and intimidatingly capable.

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I love coffee, it's so fun.

Coffee

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

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Humans need simplifications in order to understand almost anything complex. That's one of our basic biases!

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I have both witnessed and experienced, from the inside, what happens when a brain isn't at its best.

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We can architect and work towards building any world we imagine, for ourselves and future generations.

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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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We are fundamentally a future-planning species - sadly, more for ourselves and less for future generations.

Future

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Synthetic biology will be the future of manufacturing, engineering and medicine.

Biology

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I like to keep my life very fluid. I like serendipity and rolling through different ideas and possibilities.

Different ideas

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Before Europeans learned about zero, Descartes could not have come up with Cartesian geometry. All anyone had ever tried was to do…

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Some of us are frugal with our money, others are spendthrifts. The same is true with how people manage their health and…

Frugal

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Kernel and OS Fund are a departure from my previous experience. I have no formal scientific training and before these endeavors, I'd…

Experience

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Good technology isn't just a matter of mission statements; it can also come from a tinkerer with no specific overriding purpose other…

Goals

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Fear engages a cortisol/hormonal/fight-or-flight-get-out-of-Dodge response that shuts down all but the essential functions.

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Almost everything we use daily - from food to clothing to toys - relies on decades- to centuries-old ingredients and production processes.

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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.

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With computer software, genomics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, robotics, biology, we can literally program everything, having the power to create any kind…

Artificial intelligence

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When I started Kernel in 2016, my objective was to make the most revolutionary advance in the field of neuroscience around reading…

Brain

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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…

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Running more than one company requires my decision-making scales to expand and contract accordingly. Is that helpful for both companies? Probably. Is…

Brain

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We plan everything else in life: when we wake up, when we start work, meetings, social events, marriage, kids, career progression, financial…

Art work

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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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The troll inside my head is much more vicious than the trolls I get online. When I was depressed and my brain…

Brain

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Intelligence is what allows us to create forms of governance, cure disease, create art and music, discover, dream and love. Intelligence is…

Art

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

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Relative to its importance, the brain is the most underappreciated opportunity in the world.

Brain

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

Change

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The future is unpredictable, and becoming even more unpredictable.

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When we aren't well, society isn't well; and the technology we build mirrors that.

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

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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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Understanding our cognitive flaws and overcoming them is the lowest-hanging option to leveling up.

Flaws

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Most people start a business knowing what they're going to build, not trying to figure out what to do.

Business

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I'd like my death to be as entertaining as possible for everyone involved.

Death

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For years, sadly, I accepted the grind narrative associated with being an entrepreneur while building Braintree Venmo. Days without sleeping was legend.…

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Everything we are, everything we're building, everything we aspire to become, lives downstream from the brain.

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Being able to program and print new molecules opens up new worlds of possibility, in more ways than we can even imagine.

Being

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