Emma Goldberg

It's interesting. We have this image of CEOs trying to self-optimize. You know, there's that term biohacking that goes around a lot. But also a lot of these billionaires have some kind of bizarre ideas sometimes that, you know, like people like Brian Johnson, they're really obsessed with immortality.

It's interesting. We have this image of CEOs trying to self-optimize. You know, there's that term biohacking that goes around a lot. But also a lot of these billionaires have some kind of bizarre ideas sometimes that, you know, like people like Brian Johnson, they're really obsessed with immortality.

It's interesting. We have this image of CEOs trying to self-optimize. You know, there's that term biohacking that goes around a lot. But also a lot of these billionaires have some kind of bizarre ideas sometimes that, you know, like people like Brian Johnson, they're really obsessed with immortality.

You have people like Patrick Friedman sharing books about Eastern religion, about cultivating true essence to become an immortal and attain godhood was a tweet he posted. There's a lot of this very new agey, vague stuff mixed in with all of this really high tech science stuff. There's a lot in what both of you said right there.

You have people like Patrick Friedman sharing books about Eastern religion, about cultivating true essence to become an immortal and attain godhood was a tweet he posted. There's a lot of this very new agey, vague stuff mixed in with all of this really high tech science stuff. There's a lot in what both of you said right there.

You have people like Patrick Friedman sharing books about Eastern religion, about cultivating true essence to become an immortal and attain godhood was a tweet he posted. There's a lot of this very new agey, vague stuff mixed in with all of this really high tech science stuff. There's a lot in what both of you said right there.

Yeah, in fact, you know, it's not even just the same place. A lot of it is even the same people.

Yeah, in fact, you know, it's not even just the same place. A lot of it is even the same people.

Yeah, in fact, you know, it's not even just the same place. A lot of it is even the same people.

There's a great book on this by Fred Turner called From Counterculture to Cyberculture that's all about the group that came around the entrepreneur Stuart Brand and how he kind of bridged this gap between starting from the kind of back to the land hippie collectives to big technology developmental groups using a lot of this stuff as kind of a

There's a great book on this by Fred Turner called From Counterculture to Cyberculture that's all about the group that came around the entrepreneur Stuart Brand and how he kind of bridged this gap between starting from the kind of back to the land hippie collectives to big technology developmental groups using a lot of this stuff as kind of a

There's a great book on this by Fred Turner called From Counterculture to Cyberculture that's all about the group that came around the entrepreneur Stuart Brand and how he kind of bridged this gap between starting from the kind of back to the land hippie collectives to big technology developmental groups using a lot of this stuff as kind of a

ideology around which you can kind of create this perfect libertarian society that some CEOs are obsessed with.

ideology around which you can kind of create this perfect libertarian society that some CEOs are obsessed with.

ideology around which you can kind of create this perfect libertarian society that some CEOs are obsessed with.

Something within my research on the tech industry and kind of tech culture that really worries me is this obsession with these big existential questions, having the tech industry being the ones to solve big existential questions. There was a lot of discourse around psychedelics will make people more in tune with the environment. And so we could have a more eco-conscious society.

Something within my research on the tech industry and kind of tech culture that really worries me is this obsession with these big existential questions, having the tech industry being the ones to solve big existential questions. There was a lot of discourse around psychedelics will make people more in tune with the environment. And so we could have a more eco-conscious society.

Something within my research on the tech industry and kind of tech culture that really worries me is this obsession with these big existential questions, having the tech industry being the ones to solve big existential questions. There was a lot of discourse around psychedelics will make people more in tune with the environment. And so we could have a more eco-conscious society.

Psychedelics will solve the Israel-Palestine conflict. That was one thing that came out in news articles. But, you know, psychedelics can't do all this. In fact, you know, I would think that. As we've been talking about, the very heights of Silicon Valley's power, some CEOs are already doing psychedelics. If they were going to fix society, it would have already been done.

Psychedelics will solve the Israel-Palestine conflict. That was one thing that came out in news articles. But, you know, psychedelics can't do all this. In fact, you know, I would think that. As we've been talking about, the very heights of Silicon Valley's power, some CEOs are already doing psychedelics. If they were going to fix society, it would have already been done.