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…
Rehoming a cat can be one of the toughest decisions any pet owner will face. Whether due to unexpected life changes, financial difficulties, or health concerns, the need to find a new home for your feline friend is often a situation that brings mixed emotions. However, ensuring that your beloved cat ends up in a…
Waking up to use the bathroom occasionally isn’t a big deal, but it can become quite frustrating when it happens every night. I had been having some trouble waking up in the middle of the night with the urge to pee, so I studied how to correct the problem. I worried that maybe at my…
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…