Accessing the Wonder Drug For the longest time, I viewed sleep as downtime — not good. It was more like an unavoidable chunk of my life that robbed me of getting more things done. I tried everything I could to work around it, from crashing only a few hours a night to experimenting with…

I’m not a doctor, and this is not medical advice. On that topic, neither is Bryan Johnson, the near-billionaire founder of Braintree, who has committed all his time and $2M/year to try and reverse biological aging. …

Both of my parents died within a couple of years of each other before they could meet all their grandchildren. It wasn’t a story of one passing away right after another out of loneliness or grief. Nope — they had been divorced for decades. They both had cancer. One died…

Whenever writing about anything in technology, my opening worry is how quickly it will date. Yet, I also noted that I’ve been using the Apple Watch and WHOOP for about five years, with no notable leaps in innovation. Going back in time, my first wearable was a very basic Fitbit…

If you’ve been on Instagram since the pandemic, you’ve likely seen ads from MUD/WTR, an adaptogenic mushroom coffee replacement. I felt like the folks in the ads were targeting millennial wantrepreneurs who strolled through the forest with their man-buns while contemplating their next big venture raise. But alas, my wife…

“I never get sick!” These are the famous words I often exclaim right before getting sick. The viral culprits hang out in invisible droplets in the air we breathe and in the things we touch. With over 200 strains out there, they can make you miserable on a scale of…

Decisions come easy for some people and for others, even the smallest ones are painful deliberation. I made the decision to get tattoos very quickly, but then later in life took quite a while to decide upon removal. Decision-making is a process that like everything else, becomes smoother with life…

One of the most overhyped concepts in business today is AI (and machine learning). From murderous automated cars to covert surveillance, horror stories about AI are rife. But what is the truth about this revolutionary technology and how are businesses using it? Today I talked to an expert in the…

Hot water. It’s something we all take for granted. Somewhere in your home there’s a large white barrel which sits quietly in a closet providing a seemingly endless quantity of hot water… until it suddenly doesn’t. At which point, you realize how vital this appliance is to a happy, functioning…