mienai

Hard to explain the web of connections that led to this moment, but it started with a childhood hyper-fixation on immortality, a pen pal’s late husband’s cryogenically frozen brain, and crypto… I was recently accepted into the Longevity Biotech Fellowship, dedicated to solving aging with the world's top talent (@LBF_org) As a kid I'd obsess about consciousness and all of the typical questions: Where is it? Where does it come from? Will I have it when I die? What happens after I die? What if I could live forever? I love life. There are so may things I want to experience and see, I'd have to live forever to do it all. But I especially love life now that I was close to potentially not having it as my condition worsened exponentially prior to my surgery. If I had waited even just a few more months, I wouldn't be here. Many doctors missed signs—gaslit me, even—that could have improved my life and solved my issue much earlier. But gratefully, I found one doctor who stood by me. At @irl_alpha I met a woman who became a pen pal over last three years. Her late husband’s brain is cryopreserved at an institute working on cryo transplants and reanimation. Meeting her was kismet. Our convos were full of topics that extend beyond these, we got deep into the weeds. As a former journalist, my skill is synthesizing complex ideas and translating them into something people actually understand. Over the years, I’ve built relationships with leaders across evolutionary biology, robotics, and even body transplants. It's like this topic stuck to my ribs no matter what I was doing or where I was at in life. My biggest interest and mindset going into LBF? Making these advancements accessible, figuring out how they integrate into the real world and how crypto can help make that happen. If there is an opportunity to dramatically improve someone's life but there's a barrier because of cost or implementation or public perception, I believe there is a responsibility to explore paths to overcome that. There is so much more to say but I know this is already begging td;lr. If I could continue writing, I'd go on about the published papers on manifestation, the subliminals I have been listening to and how they have also contributed to this moment. But I'll just leave it here and I'm happy to—as Ram Dass would say—Be Here Now.