Bryan Johnson argues we've got work culture backwards: you're the product, not your project. Better sleep, nutrition, and exercise aren't luxuries but the real work that matters. A longer, healthier life should matter more than burning out for output.
We currently plow ourselves into our work because we think our work product is going to live on. We accept to be martyrs for that process. So we will work late nights, we will be high stress, we will eat bad food because we contribute to this work thing which goes on. But we accept our demise. What if we were our own best work life product? Flip it on its head so we are no longer subservient to and martyrs for our technology. Our technology's only objective is to serve us and our own improvement. These little teeny shifts like what would change the 21st century. We our own best product of our entire lives. And we see ourselves in the future as better. In neither case do we accept decline or death. None of us. It's a societal standard. And then you take this thing like junk food, going to bed late, skipping exercise. Like all these habits we do which accelerate our aging vanish because nobody wants to do it anymore. Because we have this future we look forward to. You talk about things that would just shift humanity to me. That's it. That's where you put your finger on it.
