Ruby Justice Thelot
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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Um, famously called like heroine chic, um uh that becomes the sort of
neck plus ultra of what the female body should be, but it is really driven by the influence of European designers who've chosen these models to represent and to wear their clothes.
Um and so once again, it kind of swings back and forth.
Um and right now it seems like we're swinging back into, of course, um an age of thinness as driven by this novel technological advancement in the peptide in the GLP one.
wearables are very interesting.
The Fitbit is launched in 2007.
That same year Kevin Kelly in Wired says it is the year of the quantified self.
And so that idea of a quantified self has been with us for like 20 years.
And it was a rather futuristic, prescient vision that Kelly had in calling it that.
And I feel like it's only full being fully realized now, 20 years later.
Um you have the Fitbit, Apple Watch in 2015.
So slowly.
Through proper product development and of course like slow adoption, we're seeing more and more adults adopt wearables as a way to
control, understand, and of course improve their bodies.
An idea that I like a lot around this concept of quantification of the self is the idea of body futurism by Toby Shorn.
So Toby uh
wrote this essay kind of like a few years ago and I always thought it was wonderful where he says
Once we've reached the limits of innovation in silicon, we turn we turn the microscope towards ourselves and try to optimize and innovate on the body.
And that's what he calls body futurism.
And so when I think about these like dashboards that people have on these apps or um, you know, waking up, going to your longevity clinic, um, even something like don't die, this is like body futures and the the idea that you can use the same tools we did to, you know, make amazing
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