#51 - Bryan Johnson

Update: 2024-03-21

Description

Bryan Johnson is the world's most measured human. Johnson sold his company, Braintree Venmo, to PayPal for $800m in 2013. Through his Project Blueprint, Johnson has achieved metabolic health equal to the top 1.5% of 18 year olds, inflammation 66% lower than the average 10 year old, and reduced his speed of aging by the equivalent of 31 years.

Johnson freely shares his protocols and data publicly for everyone to use. Project Blueprint, is an endeavor to achieve humanity and earth scale cooperation starting within Self.

In 2023, Johnson launched Rejuvenation Olympics, a leaderboard assessing one's speed of aging using DNA methylation. Of the 1,750 people who have been using this state-of-the-art aging algorithm to track their progress longitudinally, Johnson ranks #1 in speed of age reduction.

Johnson is also the founder & CEO of Kernel, creator of the world’s first mainstream non-invasive neuroimaging system; and OS Fund, where he invested $100M in the predictable engineering of atoms, molecules, and organisms into companies now collectively valued over $6B. He is an outdoor adventure enthusiast, pilot, and author of children’s books, Code 7 and The Proto Project.

00:00 - Intro
3:45 - Biographies
5:03 - Zeroth Principles Thinking and Genius
6:24 - Vision for Blueprint: A 25th Century Perspective
7:50 - Blueprint, Entropy Reduction and Planet Earth
9:23 - Impact of Blueprint
10:47 - Gene Therapy and Breaking Through the Longevity Ceiling
12:06 - Living Longer and Compounding Gains
13:31 - Bryan’s Relationship With Time
14:07 - Measuring Biological vs Chronological Age
15:05 - Encouraging Adoption, Dashboards for Society and Learning How to Swim
17:49 - Enriching vs Degrading Life and the Inevitability of Computational Intelligence
21:03 - Living Forever
22:19 - Knee-Jerk Reactions
26:03 - Free Will
28:12 - Social Drivers and Early Adopters of Blueprint
30:08 - Future of Engineering Atoms, Molecules and Organisms
32:43 - Critical Questions from Longer Lifespans
33:58 - Kernel and the Future of Brain-Computer Interfaces
36:28 - Ketamine
37:47 - Storytelling, Quantifying Reality and the Extent of the Algorithm
40:03 - OS Fund, Foundational Technologies and Architecting Reality
43:38 - Trust and God Shaped Holes
46:55 - Wealth, Effectuating Change and Competing for Legacy
48:23 - What Else Would Bryan Work On?
49:25 - What Should More People be Thinking About?