Some people hear mysticism in Jordan Peterson’s voice; others detect anger. But above all he oozes certainty. Airport security is “creeping fascism”; identity politics is “murderous”; blaming capitalism for inequality “is naive beyond belief”. Peterson is to moral judgments what traffic wardens are…

Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research Hi! I'm Laura Deming, and I run Longevity Fund . I spend a lot of time thinking about what could increase healthy human lifespan. This is my overview of the field for beginners. Feel free to send me any questions about the below (just include…

I had some free time over the holidays and wrote this article to showcase, on the basis of a personal story, many highly actionable, science-based, approaches and tools that can be used to significantly enhance intelligence. In my case these include legal/illegal drugs; using sex as a biohacking…

This post is about how to use modern science and personalized medicine to make yourself healthier, more productive and happier. Every day. Executive Summary (key points) : I am a tech CEO who wanted to have better energy, mood, focus, happiness, confidence, willpower, intelligence, health and…

They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it. ~ Thelonious Monk ( Monk’s Advice , 1960) As against our gauzy national hopes, I will teach my boys to have profound doubts that friendship with white people is possible. ~ Ekow N. Yankah ( New York Times ,…

The language of finance can be insidious. Words like leverage and concepts like diversification can morph from narrow financial terms into much more general ways of understanding the world. For students that go into finance or business, the idea of “optionality” is particularly pliable—and taken too…

Of all the ideas percolating on college campuses these days, the most dangerous one might be that speech is sometimes violence. We’re not talking about verbal threats of violence, which are used to coerce and intimidate, and which are illegal and not protected by the First Amendment. We’re talking…

He's early. I'm not sure how early he got to Au Passage, a restaurant serving small plates (Aziz's choice) that's tucked away on a graffiti-riddled street in central Paris. But he beat me—and I was early. I found him leaning on a wall, alone. Not looking at his phone or speaking with the maître d'.…

O ne day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatted about her favorite songs and TV shows, and I asked her what she likes to do with her friends. “We…

L IKE most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment. But although my conscience has…

1 Nestor Tabares must have known the hijackers were out there, waiting. It was his 13th day at sea aboard the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso , and as the ship turned east, into the pirate-strewn waters off Somalia, the 54-year-old chief engineer would have understood that it made for an obvious…

As the world's attention on November 8 turned to New York City, where both candidates awaited the results of the U.S. presidential election, one of Manhattan's most connected people, Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner, boarded a flight to San Francisco. In a few hours, his brother and best…

Goals vs. Systems In my new book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life , I talk about using systems instead of goals. For example, losing ten pounds is a goal (that most people can’t maintain), whereas learning to eat right is a system that substitutes…

Share Flip Li Lu’s Foreword to Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger My Teacher: Charlie Munger Author?Li Lu May 21, 2010 Source: “Chinese Entrepreneurs” ?”China Entrepreneur” Magazine?Twenty years ago, as a young student coming to the United States, I couldn’t have…

Typekit is the easiest way to use web fonts. Simple to set up, easy to use, and already trusted by some of the biggest names on the web, Typekit’s library of high-quality web fonts will make your site look great. Interview Describe your path to what you’re doing now as an editor and writer. I…

“How we spend our days,” Annie Dillard memorably wrote in her soul-stretching meditation on the life of presence , “is, of course, how we spend our lives.” And yet most of us spend our days in what Kierkegaard believed to be our greatest source of unhappiness — a refusal to recognize that “busy is a…

Bill Ackman saw his hedge fund’s crusade against Herbalife as a moral battle with a billion-dollar payday. Credit Illustration by Mike McQuade / Photograph by Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg / Getty One day in the summer of 2011, Christine Richard arrived at the forty-second floor of a high-rise on…

ARCH ENEMIES Dan Loeb and his current antagonists: from left, George Clooney (who called Loeb a Hollywood “carpetbagger”), hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman, Sotheby’s C.E.O. William Ruprecht, and Sony C.E.O. Kazuo Hirai. Once again, in October, Dan Loeb was lobbing grenades. This time his target was…

Tokens are early today, but will transform technology tomorrow. The exponential rise of non-Bitcoin tokens prior to the coming correction. Data from coinmarketcap.com/charts In 2014, we wrote that “Bitcoin is more than money, and more than a protocol. It’s a model and platform for true crowdfunding…

Single player game Life is a single player game. You’re born alone. You’re going to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. All your memories are alone. You’re gone in three generations and no one cares. Before you showed up nobody cared. It’s all single player. Naval Ravikant I stumbled…

There are four major approaches to decision-making: deliberative, reactive, procedural and opportunistic. The first three are well-understood. Academics study them, business and military leaders practice them, self-improvement gurus teach them and hippies protest them. Ordinary people understand…

Last month, when President Donald Trump toured a Boeing aircraft plant in North Charleston, South Carolina, he saw a familiar face in the crowd that greeted him: Patrick Caddell, a former Democratic political operative and pollster who, for forty-five years, has been prodding insurgent Presidential…

Altman says, “Most people want to be accepted, so they won’t take risks that could make them look crazy.” Illustration by R. Kikuo Johnson One balmy May evening, thirty of Silicon Valley’s top entrepreneurs gathered in a private room at the Berlinetta Lounge, in San Francisco. Paul Graham considered…

By Tom Streithorst Imagine Beyonce’s stylist’s hairdresser’s cousin tells you exactly what happened in that elevator between Solange and Jay Z. The story is compelling, explains obscure lyrics in Lemonade , makes intuitive sense. You can’t wait to tell your friends. Everybody chatters excitedly…

I know a married man and father of two who bought a twenty-one-room motel near Denver many years ago in order to become its resident voyeur. With the assistance of his wife, he cut rectangular holes measuring six by fourteen inches in the ceilings of more than a dozen rooms. Then he covered the…

This is the last part of a four-part series on Elon Musk’s companies. For an explanation of why this series is happening and how Musk is involved, 1 1 ← also click these Three quick notes: 1) PDF and ebook options: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing (see a preview here…

1452488400 After a year of tumult and scandal at Tinder, ousted founder Sean Rad is back in charge. Now can he — and his company — grow up? By Nellie Bowles Photographs by Gillian Laub When Barry Diller, the founder of the media company IAC , comes downstairs for breakfast at the Carlyle in New…

Ray Dalio has an uncanny ability to anticipate economic trends. Critics say that he runs a cult. Credit Photograph by Platon Ray Dalio, the sixty-one-year-old founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s biggest hedge fund, is tall and somewhat gaunt, with an expressive, lined face, gray-blue…

Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen are Silicon Valley luminaries, epic entrepreneurs and prominent financiers. Both have something to say about where high-tech is taking the world economy, and what is being left behind. Andreessen, co-developer of the first Web browser and now a top venture capitalist,…

Peter and Maria Hoey On Sept. 4, employees of Good Technology, a mobile security start-up in Sunnyvale, Calif., awoke to discover that their company was being sold to BlackBerry , the mobile device and software maker. Some workers immediately began trying to figure out what it meant for Good to…

You’ll notice that I made the title of this post sound quite impressive (at least I hope I did!). But the great thing about this story is that anyone can have such an impressive outcome, and it’s not at all as daunting as it might sound. In fact, all these outcomes came from doing small things every…

Privilege and inequality in Silicon Valley Why “few successful startup founders grew up desperately poor” My co-founder David and I both grew up in poverty and can call ourselves “battle-tested” when it comes to both life and startups, so when the talk in the Valley turned to income inequality , our…