“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” — Bill Gates Good things take time A human needs 20 years to grow into an adult A tree needs 10 to 30 years to reach full size An olive tree needs 65 to 80 years…
Tag: Longevity
Think Twice Before You Wish to Live Forever
“Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” — Steve Jobs Human mortality is one of the strongest forces we have, helping us focus on what is truly important, and pushing us to get things done. Imagine…
My experiences with fasting
Last year, I started listening to more health related podcasts, and fasting kept coming up. Since then, I experimented and fell in love with it. I do a daily 13-hour circadian rhythm fast (I use Zero to help me) I did a 5-day ProLon Fasting Mimicking Diet once and plan to do it more often…
The Lindy Effect
I love simple heuristics. Here is one: The Lindy effect is a concept that the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things like a technology or an idea is proportional to their current age, so that every additional period of survival implies a longer remaining life expectancy. In other words, the longer a product/company/idea already…