Early-stage investor & entrepreneur. Backing technology at inflection points.

Joined March 2009
“The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.” “Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.”
MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students. A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet. Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle. The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable. The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust. Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates. The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output. The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.
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Supernova is live.
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The better AI became at making music, the less interested I was in making something simply because AI could make it. Where does AI help someone create what they wanted to create, and where does it start replacing the creation itself?
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Haven’t posted here in a while. In the meantime, I’ve been investing, meeting great founders, spending a lot of time around AI and emerging technology, still following Web3, and spending more time on music and creative projects. That’s where most of my attention has been lately.
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We just raised $60 million for Blueprint. To bring my longevity protocol to you. Our society has made us unwell…metabolically, mentally, spiritually. We’re addicted. Social media, porn, nicotine, junk food, fast food, smartphones, streaming, energy drinks, and gambling. Each perfectly engineered to keep us in their grip. Years ago, I was owned by these systems. They wrecked me, and my health. I wish there had been someone in my life helping me break free. Blueprint will be that system. Collectively, we will claw our power back. Blueprint will take better care of people than they can themselves. Better than the healthcare system does. Better than our societal norms allow. We will be your home for health. Blueprint will help you feel clear-headed and vibrant. You will become more jacked and beautiful with our presence in your life. There’s nothing better than feeling your best. Some of the world’s most powerful people are backing Blueprint. Talent are pivoting their careers to join our team. They rightly see that Blueprint is in the right place, at the right time, for the global emergence of the new macro trend of health, anti-aging and Don’t Die. In this post I’ll cover: + Who’s investing + What Blueprint will be + Who’s joining + Open positions + How to get early access The next era of human is here. [WHO’S INVESTING] This remarkable group of people are Blueprint investors. They are backing the next great frontier: human longevity. + Akshay Bd + Alex Hormozi + Amanda Cassatt + Andrej Karpathy + Ari Emanuel + Balaji Srinivasan + Bill Lee + Brad Keywell + Brian & Veronica Grazer + Bryan Meehan + Cameron Winklevoss + Carter Reum + Chris Hollod + Dan Manges + Dave Morin + Don Wilson + Drew Houston + Emmett Shear + Eric Demuth + Fareed Adib + Generational Family Office + Jason Fried + Jay Shetty + Joe Gebbia + Joe Lonsdale + John Carmack + Joshua Kushner + Kamal Ravikant + Karim Beguir + Kevin Hartz + Kim Kardashian + Kyle Widrick + Logan Paul + Michael Cao + Michael Kives + Naval Ravikant + NIV + Olaf Carlson-Wee + Paris Hilton + Pippa Lamb + Saquon Barkley + Ken Katz + Seth Bannon + Shayne Coplan + Steve Aoki + Steven Bartlett + Suna Said + Tyler Winklevoss + Winnie Liu + Wojciech Zaremba [TEAM] Defeating death would be humanity’s greatest accomplishment. Big things are happening right now in our small corner of the galaxy. We see the consequence of this moment and are working to positively influence the future of intelligent existence. We believe that product is philosophy and companies can influence the world. Join if you love to work insanely hard and also get eight hours of sleep. Joining our team as CEO is Gyre Renwick. He was previously President of Modern Health and before that an executive at Google Health and Lyft Healthcare. Gyre builds complex health systems into growth engines. In this next chapter, I am doubling down on Blueprint and Don’t Die. I’m all in. Gyre will run the business and I will focus on vision, strategy, and birthing Don’t Die into the world. Blueprint is the practical manifestation of Don’t Die. They are the same thing. I will continue to juggle many full-time jobs: rejuvenation athlete, Blueprint vision, leading the Don’t Die moral philosophy and ideology, building a global community, and content creation. Ultimately, both Blueprint & Don’t Die ladder up to the same thing, answering the question: ‘what does humanity do as we give birth to super intelligence?’. Kate Tolo (co-founder), Gyre, and I will be in lockstep building this mission together. Roles we are filling now: + Chief Technology Officer + Chief Product Officer + Chief Medical Officer + Chief Marketing Officer + Engineers of all types + See all open roles Refer your most talented friends. If you don’t see a job fit, still email us. [BLUEPRINT VISION] We’re making my protocol accessible to everyone. To replicate everything including the measurements, protocols, therapies - and make it easy and accessible for others to do in a community. For your family and friends to do this too. Many think that the world’s most powerful people have their health figured out. The truth is, most everyone is floundering. Luxury concierge services often do little for wealthy people as the biggest gains are not in expensive therapies but daily habits. We will help you build life foundations, starting with the basics and graduating to advanced therapies. Our goal is to be more effective in helping you achieve your health goals than any health system or concierge in the world. Blueprint will build around: + your preferences + your budget + your preexisting conditions + your prior results + your prescriptions + your level of effort It’s health within context. I built Blueprint to solve my own problem. My body and mind were broken, and I didn’t know who to trust to help me fix it. Everyone disagreed with everyone else. I found sanity in gathering a team of doctors and building a protocol based upon robust measurement and scientific evidence. It’s a methodical process that produces better outcomes and results in fewer mistakes and wasted time. After my team and I built a protocol for me, my friends and family asked if they could get access too.  Then their friends and family asked and I said yes again. The circle kept on expanding until we stumbled into Blueprint becoming a company. We will tell you to do less. Most good health can be achieved with very little effort. It’s the systems, infrastructure, knowledge, and piecing through the noise that is hard. Blueprint is Bryan Johnson’s protocol, for everyone. What this will practically mean: + Blood draws + Food delivery + GLP-1s + Rx prescriptions + Free protocols + Toxin testing + At-home tests + Skin care & hair care + Nutrition & supplementation + Advanced therapies And your AI health companion will make it simple. I like to call this my Autonomous Self. In the same way you put in an address and digital navigation tells you the best way to get there, Blueprint is navigation to vibrance. Our goal is to remove the thinking and hassle for you so that you can focus on building durable life habits and achieve the best health of your life. I love thinking about what the future will say about us. When I think from the perspective of those who exist in the year 2500, I think they’ll observe that the 2020s and 2030s was the time when humans figured out that they were the first generation who wouldn’t die. Early access below. What an amazing opportunity. Let’s do this together. Bryan
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Aging was nature’s limit. Could ending it be the key to unlocking our true potential?
Reminder If you're over 30-40, you'll soon be biologically young again — this time, indefinitely. If you're under 20-25, you may never know what aging feels like, because reversal technologies will arrive before first signs of aging ever appear.
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Severance is a fantastic show. Completely original and totally unpredictable. Amazing writing, directing and acting. Just a totally unique show. Just finished season one and on to season 2 on @AppleTV
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The most active days are those in which you try to do nothing.
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There are some dreams we cannot dream —because we lack the vocabulary, the words, the theorems, the axioms. Until one day. Until one day… they dream us back.
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No entrepreneur is worried about an AI taking their job.
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Art and politics, in theory, share a twist: artists often create for selfish reasons, yet their work benefits many. Politicians should act selflessly and should serve the many, yet often serve themselves. In both cases, reality loves irony.
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Did Steve Jobs get his iconic 'One more thing' from Jim Morrison's The Ghost Song: youtube.com/watch?v=M1dtkfI_…? 🤔 Listen to the last part—40 seconds of silence from 4:06 to 4:41 and then .... Coincidence or inspiration? 🎶🍏
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Episode IV… not necessarily as in Star Wars.
Full Shard: Ep 4 - Worldwide Expansion Big ideas, bold moves. In tech, Web3, media, public sector & beyond. History in the making, one breakthrough at a time. W/ @beniaminmincu @lucianmincu @luciantodea & special guest @xAdamBates. 00:00 - 2 weeks into the US elections 16:36 - Romanian elections 28:35 - xMoney and Stablecoins 41:27 - How to change the world 55:38 - Memecoins and AI 1:09:16 - Adam Bates' story 1:34:52 - Why Adam chose MultiversX 1:39:24 - Trip to South Korea 1:46:55 - Opportunities in South Korea 1:53:12 - Opportunities for MultiversX 1:55:00 - Challenges for MultiversX 1:57:28 - Q&A with Adam Bates 2:18:50 - Lessons learned
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Homecoming kicking off in Sibiu📍🔥
Gathering the Web3 world for a new series of banger @xAllianceDAO community events. Currently underway in Cluj. Sibiu & Bucharest next 📍🇷🇴 Be there! 🫡
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Time for the location reveal for this year's xDay. A fresh perspective, in a new continent, on a breathtaking island — with an even more daring vision for tech. The countdown is on for Seoul, October 30-31 | early bird tickets go out in August 🇰🇷
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found him 🤓😂
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