The Two Longevity Hacks Silicon Valley Can’t Sell You

Photo by Milad Fakurian on UnsplashImagine you wanted to design a machine that would pull the maximum possible amount of money out of a person terrified of dying. You wouldn’t build it around the interventions that work. The interventions that work are boring, and worse than boring, they’re free, and a machine that recommends free things can’t sustain a market cap. You’d build instead a machine that waves continuously toward the frontier of biological possibility, telomeres and senescent cells and NAD+ and rapamycin and the mitochondria of a Greenland shark, while steering the customer away from the two things that would help, because those two things generate no recurring revenue and can’t be improved by version 2.0.For the median well-off Silicon Valley person spending money on longevity, two free interventions dominate the entire effect of everything they buy by a wide and somewhat embarrassing margin: get enough sleep, and…don’t be lonely. Everything downstream of those two things…