Bryan Johnson explains that whether to speak without data depends on your audience and goals. At his blueprint brunches with entrepreneurs and scientists, he balances exploring speculative ideas with the social dynamics of ranking and status that naturally emerge in groups.
In your opinion, then should nobody speak on things that they don't have data for? And what is the role of playing with ideas that are more difficult to be analytical?
It depends on who the conversation's with and what the objectives are. If you're just there to have fun, if you're actually trying to solve a problem. These blueprint brunches, I bring people together and no one knows each other. It's a set of accomplished people, entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, astronauts, educators. So everyone's kind of doing the dance of filling each other out. They're trying to figure out ranking and priority and status, trying to, like, you do all the social stuff. And so people are playing those different games. Yeah. I just say that my personal participation varies according to the group I'm in and what we're trying to achieve.
