I’ve been a huge fan of Invest Like the Best for years. @patrick_oshag does such a good job of helping people understand big topics, and I loved this conversation with @hubermanlab (who I've also been a fan of for years) on neurotechnology, combining scientific learning with an investing perspective on technology, behavior and consumer products. Some of the “cyborg” possibilities feel unsettling when you first hear Andrew talk about them - devices that could change your attention, motivation or emotional state. But Huberman’s comparison with familiar interventions made them easier to understand: >Caffeine changes alertness. >Adderall influences attention. >SSRIs affect serotonin signaling. >GLP-1 drugs act on pathways involved in appetite. >Consumer wearables measure our physiology and encourage us to change our behavior in response. These approaches have different mechanisms and risks, but we already accept many ways of influencing how we feel and behave through psychological, behavioral and chemical interventions. Huberman describes a future in which we can measure nervous-system activity more accurately, use AI to learn how an individual responds, then adjust targeted stimulation. Some of his examples make that more concrete: >Sleep devices that measure eye movements and deliver stimulation to help users fall asleep. >Wearables that could distinguish distress from elevated arousal during an activity someone enjoys. >Targeted stimulation that could help someone focus during a task and relax afterward. Those examples are at different stages of development, and his more ambitious forecasts remain speculative. He also acknowledges how incomplete our understanding of thought and memory remains, and how the same neurons participate in multiple functions - some of which upends a lot of how we thought it worked up until this point. I found the continuity with things we already use particularly interesting. Breaking the technology down into what it measures, what it changes and how that influences behavior makes some of these possibilities feel much less alien/cyborg-ish. I'm so pumped for the future.