#527: The Random Show Life-Extension Misadventures, Blockchain/Crypto Investing, NFT Experiments, Dogecoin, Zen Buddhism, and Weathering Sharp Elbows

Does the US wake up one day and say 'Actually, cryptocurrency is illegal. Shut it all down.'? And I just can't see that being the case here. It's too far entrenched into everything that we're doing. Every major bank, whether they like it or not, is now embracing blockchain in some capacity. It's a fantastic underlying technology. So, it would just be odd to say 'We're banning a certain type of technology.' Like, I just can't see that happening in the United States.

My priorities from a training perspective... would be conventional weight training once or twice a week, probably no more than that. It's really to... make it a little easier to maintain healthy glucose levels. If you are increasing your muscular mass, particularly if you're doing these workouts prior to a meal, your glucose disposal is just going to be improved. GLUT-4 transporters and so on will be more effective at doing their job.

I've realized if I am not comfortable making an investment for at least three years, I just shouldn't do it because I probably haven't done sufficient homework to have strong conviction on my base assumptions that should underlie that type of decision.

With NTFs, yes, there are going to be some amazing things. There's also going to be a lot of noise. But it's kind of like tech companies in '99 or 2000. So, yes, someone could say all of those companies were garbage, but, amidst all the noise, you had the Googles and the Amazons.

My biggest regrets in all of investing are actually the times that I sold prematurely ... It's not having missed opportunities to invest; it's having not held the things I invested in for a long period of time.

I think it's easy for people who lift weight, in some fashion, to be heavily biased against bodyweight or calisthenic-type exercises, and it's very easy for people who do bodyweight calisthenic-type exercises... to glance askance at people who are lifting weights. And I think they are very, very complementary. But man, I have seen some gigantic bodybuilders and powerlifters do a yoga class and just end up on the floor because it is a different exercise.

People get so caught up in these bull and bear markets and watching these coins... I try not to get caught up in the weeds there and just zoom out even further. Because I think once you do that, the lines start to smooth out a bit, and you understand that we're in the very early first innings of this entire rewriting of the financial stack.

A lot of people go to zero trying to chase, like, 40% annual returns.