American Writers

"I would say that my greatest achievement is not the technology which I have created, but the opportunities I’ve been able to create for others."

"Provide your brain the nutrients it needs to run optimally and spark innovation by only ingesting calories for cognitive performance, key nutrients, and accelerating work output."

"I am not writing this book The Performance CEO to become a content creator or leading biohacking personality. I am busy building the future of ethical artificial intelligence. My mission with this book is clear: to put this protocol into the hands of the new breed of optimized CEOs and future changemakers. So you have the tools to be at your best and build your dreams as I have done."

"We fast 23 hours a day and only consume one meal of the most bioavailable foods to drive our entrepreneurial performance and cognitive performance"

"Predictive analytics can help leaders create the ultimate tech roadmap and help a technology business optimize the customer experience by helping leaders understand how customers are leveraging the company’s product or service. It enables tech businesses to predict what customers are going to need to drive their objectives, based on data and trends the system has previously deployed. This predictive state, based on tactical successes and data metrics, shows where the tech needs to go."

"Building the future of ethical AI will require AI ethicists who specialize in implementing guidelines for all AI systems. They will ensure that these systems are designed and deployed in an unbiased manner and will eliminate issues around privacy, fairness, transparency and accountability. In so doing, all platforms created will align with societal values, mitigating risk across all industries."

"I solely focus on the optimization of sleep, not the length. The perfect night of sleep is two hours of REM and two hours of deep sleep."

"When I invest in my sleep, my output is unrivaled."

"Understand your business well before leveraging new technology. Assess how this tech will interact with the ecosystem and supply chain and how each department is interconnected. This enables founders to see gaps and eliminate redundancies. Customization, configuration and user feedback are also vital; if you know the positions they’re coming from, then you can drive success."

"You won't always be motivated so you must learn to be disciplined."

"Simplicity clears space so I can think big and build the future."

"The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack."

"My personal style of leadership centers around being a visionary in the technology industry and constantly looking into the future."

"Attracting and retaining talent is a skill in and of itself. There is a lot of competition for the best developers in the world, so you must be able to articulate your vision and get them to believe in it, because a bootstrapped startup will never have the resources of Google, Meta or OpenAI."

"One of the ways I achieve this is through building a culture that embraces innovation."

"Now, these local tactics are also overlaid by the entire national marketing calendar, we have all the regional marketing calendars, so our AI brain takes all that into consideration when we make that local recommendation to be able to best activate that tactic."

"At the end of the day, a startup’s purpose is not to build a product or find customers. It is to understand, find and solve a specific problem, and sell the solution to customers grappling with that problem."

"Bootstrapping requires that you involve your clients when building your product roadmap. This is a great way to understand customers’ businesses, problems and blindspots, but it also serves a crucial purpose: It lets you target a specific issue"

"Ask yourself if you’re building the technology for a real-world application that companies will need, and if you’re putting every dollar toward providing value for the product, the customer, and the team"

"Innovation happens in the early hours of the morning, when our brains are functioning at a higher electrical frequency. We need to capitalize on every minute of the day from the moment we wake up. Rise before the competition—before 4 a.m.—and create the time and quiet space to think big."

"A fasted brain can be laser-focused. By implementing elongated fasting and shrinking our eating window to only consume one meal a day, we’re stimulating autophagy, where new cells eat old cells, evoking neuronal regeneration. This is attained by fasting for 23 hours a day, 48 hours once a week, and 72 hours once per month."

""Chesterton's Post" is a call for action: Sometimes we need to intervene just to preserve what we already have. This separation is jarring. Polygenic screening has obvious benefits, like boosting the chance that our children will have healthy and happy lives. But there are also potential costs. The hard part is trying to sort out when skepticism about new technologies like polygenic screening reflects a mere psychological prejudice, such as status quo bias, and when it might be justified. [...] In the realm of reproduction, Chesterton’s fence reminds us that we should be wary of making sweeping changes in the genome without understanding what might go wrong."

"Still, the distinction between embryo selection and gene editing is not as stark as it might seem. Genes mutate all the time; indeed, mutation drives evolution. If random mutations are a constant part of nature, there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with altered genes. Eventually, a combination of embryo selection and gene editing may be essential just to stay where we are now. This is because the modern world has been quietly fostering the accumulation of deleterious mutations in all of us. Genetic mutations occur throughout our lives, and some are passed along to our children. Most mutations are either neutral or harmful from the standpoint of fitness. [...] [E]ntropy is a pervasive miasma that leads to disintegration and decay. In the absence of purifying selection, and in the presence of the modern welfare state, which protects us from the ravages of disease and famine and scarcity, we will likely experience a rise in deleterious mutations, along with other genetic pathologies. [...] We may need to keep repairing the post just to preserve the parts of it that we cherish."

"A colleague of mine in the economics department once said, "when the price of bullshit is zero, demand is inelastic." A corollary of this principle is that when the price of bullshit is zero, the supply of bullshit is infinite, especially when there are tangible gains for bullshitters."

"Prometheus was punished for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to people. Fire symbolizes the arts and sciences – the fruits of our cognitive faculties. Although he was sentenced by Zeus to eternal torture for sharing his knowledge, Prometheus is seen by most readers as a hero, and Zeus as a villain."

"Eugenics has become a dirty word in popular culture because of its excesses in the early twentieth century, including forced sterilization laws in the USA and Germany (which were applied to the ‘feebleminded’ but sometimes also to epileptics and even sexual deviants). But a lot of the criticism of eugenics conflates what Galton and many modern academics in bioethics mean by ‘eugenics’ with how the Nazis misused it [...] Moral grandstanding has become so common in connection with the word that journalists often use ‘eugenics’ to mean something like ‘unjust coercion of innocent parents’. But Galton and Darwin would have rejected this, and so should we. According to Leonard Darwin, Charles Darwin’s son and past president of the Eugenics Society of England, ‘Eugenics is the study of heredity as it may be applied to the betterment, mental and physical, of the human race’ [...] While people disagree about precisely which traits are worth promoting, what motivates eugenics is a concern that individual welfare depends in part on the average traits of a population, and that demographic trends matter to the extent that they influence the success or failure of entire populations."

"I cannot shake the conviction that life is (usually) worth living, and that we should continue to create the conditions for intelligent life to experience beauty, create art, discover how the world works, and continue to set and satisfy goals that presuppose a complex form of intelligence. It is at this point that our intuitions bottom out. If you think that life is pointless, given that we will leave no trace in 20 billion years, it is hard to know how to convince you to believe otherwise. An obligation to reproduce, no matter how weak it is, cannot exist unless there is value to the future experiences intelligent creatures will have."

"Evolution is path-dependent. Future populations will be shaped by the choices parents make now. These choices will be influenced by the social and political institutions they live under. It is up to us to think through what kinds of institutions we should create, and what kinds of future people should exist."

"I was doubtful that there is anything really new and important to say about the topic. I was wrong. By focusing on collective action problems and negative externalities, Anomaly has done a great service."

"The title of this essay is deliberately provocative. Eugenics can be thought of as any attempt to harness the power of reproduction to produce people with traits that enable them to thrive. Nearly everyone agrees that parents should provide an environment that promotes the welfare of their children. Advocates of eugenics add that we should also manipulate biology to promote well-being, provided we can do so without imposing undue risk on our children or on other people with whom they will share the planet."