Author Profile
Bryan Johnson
1977 • American • Author
60
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Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesThe discovery that we can program our existence and author our own lives has radically altered my life - transforming my identity, aspirations, and reason for existence.— Bryan Johnson
As the founder and CEO of Braintree, I'd always asked for honest and transparent feedback from everyone on the team. If the feedback was a direct criticism of me, even better.— Bryan Johnson
Ultimately, climate change, infectious diseases and famine could meet their match with applied and synthetic biology.— Bryan Johnson
Almost everything we use daily - from food to clothing to toys - relies on decades- to centuries-old ingredients and production processes.— Bryan Johnson
We, our environment, our universe all share a common code base. In living things, this code comprises sequences of base pairs that repeat across organisms.— Bryan Johnson
Using biology to pursue our best opportunities and solve our greatest challenges opens up an entirely untapped world of solution sets for humanity - an endeavor I couldn't be happier to support.— Bryan Johnson
The mind-bending fact that a common shrub is more advanced than the latest MacBook Pro is overlooked by almost everyone. We fail to see it for a simple reason: the coolest parts of a plant can't be seen. Not with the naked eye, at least.— Bryan Johnson
Humans need simplifications in order to understand almost anything complex. That's one of our basic biases!— Bryan Johnson
I like to keep my life very fluid. I like serendipity and rolling through different ideas and possibilities.— Bryan Johnson
I'm not a biohacker. I'm not an optimization person. I'm an explorer, about the future of being human.— Bryan Johnson
We are accustomed to first-principle thinking, where you assume the fewest number of things in a particular time frame. Zeroth-principle thinking is thinking from another dimension. It's another way of saying talent hits the target no one else can. Genius hits the target no one else can see.— Bryan Johnson
When humans can measure something, the first thing that always happens: an ecosystem of ideas and, eventually, industry springs up around it.— Bryan Johnson
Building a successful future depends upon our ability to come up with new and unexpected ideas in governance, technology, social structures, cultural values and norms, among dozens of other things. These are some reasons why as an investor, I only invest in futures I cannot predict.— Bryan Johnson
Fear engages a cortisol/hormonal/fight-or-flight-get-out-of-Dodge response that shuts down all but the essential functions.— Bryan Johnson
Being ruthlessly honest is risky, awkward, and uncomfortable - for nearly all of us. There's really no getting around it.— Bryan Johnson
The quicker we can make radically improving our brains the single highest priority of the human race, the more effective we will be to work on everything else we care about.— Bryan Johnson
First-principles thinking sets goals in known terms and then pursues them, inventing and learning new things as necessary, but it rarely uncovers brand new conceptual primitives of the kind which the world needs.— Bryan Johnson