> Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. > > - A. N. Whitehead Learned of by Bryan Johnson. Living a file driven by data and optimal practices to live at your best. ## Why > We need to free ourselves of the costly metabolic things we do today, such as rote or biased decision making and logistics management around solvable things such as sleep and biomarker-based diet, exercise, or lifestyle. Leveling us up to spend our precious time and energy to explore the frontiers of being human rather than things we know how to do efficiently. > No intervention is required at all. A Self goes about one’s day optimally guided for all the operational cognitive tasks and decisions that are thought undeserving of attention, freeing up metabolic capacity to explore higher order cognitive discovery. ## Principles - Automate health algorithms to not have to think - In bed by x time - Physical support (blacked out room) - Capture Long Tail Gains - Incorporate everything you have learned - Not even the 80 / 20 rule is enough - Achieve algorithmic improvements beyond the brain - Based on your data, you make decisions and are the test subject to learn from What if we could integrate the autonomous self into other things through AI and software? There's: - Automatic time blocking through motion - Offloading processing through AI [[Journey before destination]]