Priyanka (OnlyADecadeLate)

Good morning #NFTCommunity. It's a BIG day here. My 1st ever NFT in life has been listed on @opensea!!! Can't wait to add more NFTs one block chain transaction at a time.... Thanks to all those that helped me during this journey! opensea.io/assets/0x495f9…

@bryan_johnson Yoga!

I’m going to try and achieve immortality by 2039. One year of time passes and I remain the same biological age. I invite you to join me. The search for the fountain of youth is the oldest story ever told. It’s been the dream of dreamers for millennia but always painfully out of reach. For the first time in the history of life on earth, in just the past 24 months, the window has opened for a conscious being to realistically strive for this goal. It is an absolutely insane moment. We currently do not know how 2039 immortality will be achieved. There are new, promising therapies that can turn back the clock decades, but they’re buggy. Sometimes they mistakenly cause cancer. We gotta fix that. But we know immortality is possible because nature has already solved it. This isn’t a physics problem like trying to travel faster than the speed of light, it’s a biological engineering problem that evolution has cracked multiple times. The freshwater hydra constantly regenerates its own cells and doesn’t succumb to senescence. It is effectively ageless. The "immortal jellyfish" (Turritopsis dohrnii) can revert its cells back to a youthful state and restart its life cycle indefinitely. Lobsters produce an especially active form of an enzyme called telomerase that preserves their telomeres and keeps their DNA from degrading as they age. We need to port the software to humans. 2039 is a reasonable target because of the accelerated, AI-driven rate of innovation. AI is morphing from assistant to scientist.  It is powering current researchers with previously unimagined capabilities to enhance discovery and development. That, coupled with enhanced biomarker measurement, creates a closed-loop system of improvement that will speed things up dramatically. This is what I’ve been doing for six years. As crude as longevity technology is today, the improvements I’ve personally seen are stunning. I started as a worn-down, inflamed, aged 42 year old who’d broken himself on the rocks of American food slop and entrepreneurship martyrdom. Six years later, my body largely operates at elite 18 year old levels. That includes my cardiovascular system, fertility, strength, and hormones. Not all is well though. I have mild to moderate hearing loss in my left ear that we can’t fix and my brain is anatomically age 42 (I’m 48). Still, unreal results. My team and I did this by following the scientific method. We measured the biological age of every organ. We referenced the best scientific evidence on how to slow aging and rejuvenate.  We methodically completed these protocols and measured again. Rinse and repeat. We could do so much more and faster if we had better measurement and better therapies. Both of which are cooking all over the world right now. To speed things up now, I’m currently having thousands of Bryan Johnson organ clones built in a dish. This will allow me to test drugs and other molecules against my biology to accelerate learning and save my body from potential mishaps. Yes, we’ll make mistakes. Hopefully they won’t be fatal. And of course there’s always bad luck to contend with. But I trust in fate and I believe that destiny is going to grant the human race the pleasure of achieving the ultimate: immortality. While immortality would certainly be cool, the real (secret) objective is to focus our collective attention on a positive goal. Something that helps us feel hope and excitement for the future. I personally love the idea of having a child-like mind, 18-year-old physical vibrancy, and a lifetime of wisdom. This 2039 goal is as much about AI as it is about us humans. It’s about how we survive giving birth to superintelligence. It’s kind of a big deal. We haven’t done it before. A lot can go wrong. I figure that one of the best ways to improve the probability that we build safe AI, and don’t kill each other in the meantime, is to transform our shared aspirations from yolo to don’t die. Right now, we are a suicidal species. We do all kinds of really primitive shit. We unnecessarily kill ourselves with what we eat and how we live our lives. Companies make profits from killing other people with their products. We trash the only home we have. We celebrate these things as virtue.  It’s really fucked up and backward. Soon enough we’ll realize just how infantile we are right now. The 2039 goal points us in the right direction. To say yes to life and no to death. Defiance even. If you’re interested in doing this with me, I’ll continue to share everything I do for free. I’m also going to build this out in Blueprint. We’ll help you do exactly what I’m doing, at a fraction of the cost and effort, alongside an aligned and motivated community. I think this is the coolest goal imaginable. I find it hard to believe that of all the people who’ve lived, it’s us who get the opportunity to have this moment. I pray that we have the courage to appreciate the sacredness of our existence. I pray that we will be brave enough to defend her amidst the onslaught of all the forces that would try to end her. We don’t know, but we may be the only intelligent life to exist in our corner of the galaxy. I pray we will be warriors, caretakers and stewards of existence and honor the gift that has been bestowed on us.

@stephsmithio These are all so gorgeous and great captures!! Love this one and the hippo sunset the most!

Still can't believe all that we got to see in Tanzania 🇹🇿😍

@stephsmithio The cane/jute keeps everything cool during hot days :). Hope you go to the Ghiblee museum. I would love a first hand story about it :)

One small piece of a 3-week vacation (for the first time ever!) Thankful 🙏💆🏻‍♀️🌿

@stephsmithio @internet_pipes @Jared_Seidel_ Sooo excited for next week!

First @internet_pipes rare fruit tasting was a success! Huge thanks to @Jared_Seidel_ for hosting at his beauuutiful Russian Hill apartment. Had over 30 fruit to try — all sourced locally. Got people to guess 16 of them. Highest score was 11! What don’t you recognize? 🍈

I did a thing and liked it.... open.substack.com/pub/onlyadecad… #mural

A 14x8 colorful behemoth #mural #onlyADecadeLate #theaterbackdrop #hushhushSETUPlay #chupkechupke #hoomangenerated

@nevmed Same here! :)

Google Keep is low key the most useful note taking app out there: - Way easy to save notes and pictures. - Masonry layout is easy to browse. - It’s free. - Natively ties into all Google products. - Can export everything into a Doc. So much easier to use than Notion for me.

333,333 followers! To celebrate, I’m giving 3 random people that repost this and follow me $3,333 each I’ll pick the winners in 3 days

@stephsmithio Congratulations! :)

big day for me 🍀🪪

@lennysan @kunalb11 @CRED_club This episode is a killer! Not just great quotes, but awesome references and a different perspective on looking at all things tech. I will need to re-listen and note down all those quotes :) - Loved the lower valence bond, less reaction noble gas joke :D

Kunal Shah (@kunalb11) is one of India's most admired and well-known product leaders. He is the CEO and founder of @CRED_club, an Indian-based fintech startup valued at over $6 billion. Prior to CRED, he founded three other startups, including FreeCharge, which he sold for over $400m to Snapdeal. He has also been an advisor to India’s most influential organizations, a part-time partner at Y Combinator, and an advisor at Sequoia Capital. In our conversation, we discuss: 🔸 The prevalence of successful Indian immigrants in top CEO roles 🔸 Why companies in India can grow DAUs, but not ARPUs—and what the means for building products for India 🔸 The power of curiosity and second-order thinking 🔸 Challenges and opportunities in the Indian market 🔸 The Delta 4 framework for building new products 🔸 Lessons from building CRED (so far) 🔸 Lessons from failure 🔸 Much more

@lennysan Thats awesome! Very happy to have purchased a copy to support you in this good cause (not to mention the amazing learnings)

We are officially SOLD OUT. Final numbers: → 5,000 books sold → $178,000 in revenue -$66,204 in book production costs -$35,000 in shipping and handling -~$20,000 in other taxes and fees => $60,000 raised for charity 🎉🎉🎉 A massive thank-you to everyone who ordered a copy, spread the word, and shared a fun photo of the book in the wild 😍 Finally, the biggest thank-you of all to @ttrauser for doing basically all of the work to make this labor-of-love book a reality, and executing this whole operation like a pro 👏🏆

@ShaanVP I also got tested for all allergens here in US to nail down what I was allergic to specifically

@ShaanVP Ayurvedic/siddha doctor. I have finally found one in India that I like and whose meds I have been taking for a few years. My allergies are better. Nothing else had worked for me before and I had to suffer through it. DM me if interested and I can share his details

I'm on a mission to help fix my son's allergies and asthma. He's 3 yrs old 1) what should I try? 2) who should I talk to? he has the 'triad' (allergies, asthma, exzema) - we don't know what he's allergic to - he's in a semi-permanent state of flare up (redness, wheezy, runny nose type stuff) - if he catches any kind of cold, we end up in the ER because his breathing gets too labored (needs nebulizer for hours)

@stephsmithio @calvin_rosser Havent been there, but Ghiblee museum is on my list for when I go there

Going to Japan this summer with @calvin_rosser! 🥟🍣🍜 Cal has never been before. I've been many times but always on a lean nomad budget. Now we want to do it big. What are the BEST things to do, see, eat? The kind of things if we were to never go again, we must do them now

@ShaanVP Bar stool's the way to go. Forces you to keep back straight

does anybody have an unconvnetional chair for working from home? I'm into functional patterns & posture - but most desk chairs leave my hips/back stuck in bad positions. anyone got something they love?

@TimStodz @nevmed Whats the benefit of drinking caffeine!!

@nevmed I have no idea why anyone would want to completely stop drinking caffeine. What's the benefit?

Im just gonna do it: Not gonna drink caffeine for the next two weeks. I’ve tried tapering off and keep failing, time to rip the Band Aid. Posting here for accountability. Last caffeine was 10am today, I assume withdrawals will kick in within 24 hours.

@lennysan Super excited to get mine!

Big news: The Best of Lenny's Newsletter—Volume 1 book is done, starting to ship globally 🥳🙌💥 The first batch of books is officially in production and pre-orders will be shipping over the next 2 weeks. We've already sold over $70,000 in pre-orders (all profits going to charity), and are halfway through our limited-edition run of 5,000 books. If you'd like to order some copies and help raise money for charity, grab your copy here: lennyswag.com/en-usd/product…

@thesamparr @noahkagan Yayyy! OnlyADecadeLate@gmail.com

Just bought ~50 copies of @noahkagan new book cuz I'm such a great friend. Will randomly select a few people to give them out to. Give me your email on the link below and on Feb 15 I'll email you if you won 'em. theantimba.com

@_SchusterDev Lol

How I feel helping founders build their businesses vs how I feel building my own

@SahilBloom I just did it. It's such a cool idea Sahil! I did mine by scheduling in gmail. But curious to know how did you schedule yours into the future?

On January 1, 2014, I wrote a letter to my future self just before graduating. Today, 10 years later, I opened it. This hit me hard. Everyone should do this.