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USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.
I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.
Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.
In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.
This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.
The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.
So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.
The owner asked if everything was okay.
"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."
He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"
I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.
I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.
So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.
And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.
Reborn.
A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.
Aging is arguably the root cause of most major diseases (loss of function in our cells). Four years ago, we made a bet that aging was treatable, and NewLimit was born.
NewLimit now has a prototype drug that reverses the age of some human cells (restores function they had when they were younger), and a clinical trial scheduled for next year (with more drug candidates in the pipeline).
Grateful to Founders Fund, Thrive, Greenoaks, and the rest of the investors for this latest round. @jacobkimmel and the team are just getting started.
I love the big swings @newlimit and team are taking and can now continue to take with this new funding! Hereโs to rooting for them to knock it out of the park. โพ๏ธ ๐ช๐ป โค๏ธ
The opposite of paranoia is pronoia, the irrational belief that the universe is conspiring in your favor. I have built my entire career on pronoia and I highly recommend it.
@HannahWardEdu ๐ Living this but with a puppy for the last four months! We consciously went out and bought ours. ๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธ You, on the other hand, can take comfort in being a total bad*ass kitten rescue superhero! ๐ ๐ฆธ๐ผโโ๏ธ โค๏ธ
Love this, Dan! I am always so close to getting one of these but then canโt decide which to get. Perhaps your experiment results will help push me over the fence to finally make a decision?! ๐ค โค๏ธ
For the next 7 days, I'm going to wear a Whoop, Oura Ring, Fitbit Air, and Apple Watch all at the same time.
The goal is to see the differences in sleep and recovery metrics as well as user experience.
Anything else would you want to see from this test?
โEvery system built to measure us becomes something to exploitโฆโ ๐ฌ ๐ตโ๐ซ
I feel like these missives are the blueprint for a blockbuster movie. We just donโt know how it ends yet. Will it be the positive Peter Diamandis ๐&๐ฆ version?๐ค๐ป Or are we battling Hal to survive?๐ค ๐ฟ ๐ฅ
@mbateman@C_Hendrick ๐ณ Take your daily dose of harsh โimpending deathโ reality medicine. ๐ Curious to see if it depresses TF out of you or you become a superhuman dream creating machine! โค๏ธ
Your grandchildren will not understand why anyone was afraid of AI. The same way you don't understand why anyone was afraid of electricity in the 19th century.