The Road to Longevity Escape Velocity: A Strategic Framework for Staying Alive Long Enough to Reap the Benefits of Radical Life Extension As advancements in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and computing accelerate, a growing number of scientists and technologists believe humanity is approaching a threshold known as longevity escape velocity (LEV)—the point at which each year…
How to Avoid Wasting Credits on Cursor AI When You’re Stuck Someone recently asked me how to avoid getting into those repetitive loops where you just keep hitting “Run” in Cursor AI without making any real progress, and worse, you’re burning through credits while the bug still isn’t solved. This happens more often than we…
Money laundering is complicated, which is one of the reasons it thrives. Let’s look at fentanyl, Mexico, and China… There are many Chinese nationals who want to move money out of China. But there’s a $50,000 withdrawal limit per year and you can’t take more than $5000 with you on a plane when you’re leaving…
Often when people think of something like the Big Bang, which is still highly speculative, they imagine the known universe starting as a single point or a small ball that blew up and began expanding. But what is actually ball-shaped is what we are able to observe. We can see an equal distance in all…
Something is not adding up… America vs. Canada: What Are We Paying For? In 2024, the U.S. spent $14,570 per person on healthcare—nearly 1.6x more than Canada, which spent about $9,054 CAD per person. But what do we get?• Life Expectancy: We spend more. We live shorter lives. And more mothers and babies die. When…
Is Google finally going to start to decline? They have dominated search, and along with it, paid ad advertising, for more than a decade. Apple published to report for April 2025 that users of Safari used google search less than a year ago, and it was the first time this has happened in a couple…
I built a new … Thai language learning app … mainly for myself, but I thought I would share it with the rest of the world. There are two main parts, studying letters and studying words. They’re all inside the same menu, but if you choose to study things like consonants and pronouns, the app…
Life on the road can get expensive, but with a few clever strategies, you can stretch your budget, enjoy better experiences, and travel longer. Here are some tried-and-true hacks to help you save money while traveling the world as a digital nomad: Flights & Booking Tips Use the Booking.com App (Not the Website): The app…
When you’re presented with a set of numbers or you have to choose one, are there certain numbers you avoid? For me, I tend to do the opposite. I often lean toward the number that makes me feel a little uneasy — the one with some negative association. If 13 is considered unlucky, I’ll pick…
How Many Water Molecules Are in Your Body? The human body is about 60% water by weight. If you weigh around 185 pounds (~84 kg), that means: ~50 liters of water, or ~50,000 grams of water How Many Molecules Is That? One mole of water (18 grams) contains ~6.022 × 10²³ molecules (Avogadro’s number). So:…