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Bryan Johnson

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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.

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The only thing we get for free in life is our existence. How we spend our life points is the most precious…

Existence

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The future is unknown and dealing with unknowns is stressful. It is why imagining the future can be so scary for people…

Anxiety

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

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I feel fortunate to live in a time when a formerly unimaginable possibility of predictably programming the atoms comprising our existence is…

Existence

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I started Kernel, a neuroenhancement company, personally investing $100M, to help ensure that humans and AI evolve together.

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Intelligence, in its varied forms, powers every opportunity we pursue and every problem we seek to solve. It sits upstream from everything…

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Seeing beyond what's possible is a rare skill. Being able to design and build beyond what's possible is even more rare.

Design

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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…

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Building good technology starts with strong curiosity, pursuit of hard problems and exploration, wherever it leads. It isn't necessarily high-minded. Rather, on…

Curiosity

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The evolution of human tools, from rocks to AI, can be seen as a trajectory of increasingly powerful effort arbitrage, where we…

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Getting future generations to be as excited about visiting the inner hollows of the brain as they are the outer reaches of…

Brain

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We are accustomed to first-principle thinking, where you assume the fewest number of things in a particular time frame. Zeroth-principle thinking is…

Genius

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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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Future literacy is the ability to forecast approximate milestones and create the capacity to reach them, regardless of contextual change. It's the…

Ability

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First-principles thinking sets goals in known terms and then pursues them, inventing and learning new things as necessary, but it rarely uncovers…

Goals

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The town of Braintree, MA was the birthplace of the 2nd and 6th Presidents, John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams.…

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We, our environment, our universe all share a common code base. In living things, this code comprises sequences of base pairs that…

Biology

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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…

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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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