"Amid the crowd on that sunny afternoon, a drug-addled man continuously tried to climb a young, flimsy tree for a better view. He failed again and again - it was simply impossible for such a dainty plant to hold his weight - yet I watched in fascination and horror as this stranger fixated on a task that would only succeed if he could defy the very laws of physics."
"Bryan Johnson - who made his millions selling his finance startup Braintree - wants to live forever. He publicly documents each step of his process on social media, including getting plasma transfusions from his son, taking over 100 pills per day, or injecting Botox into his genitals. All the while, Johnson's outlandish campaign to cheat death also functions as an advertisement for Kernel, his neurotechnology company, and Blueprint, his business that sells supplements, nut butters, and olive oil."
At eighteen, a concertgoer watched a drug-addled man repeatedly try to climb a flimsy tree, fixating on an impossible task. Over a decade later, the same observer saw Grimes perform again, this time during a public livestream for entrepreneur Bryan Johnson. Johnson ingested a 5.24 gram dose of psilocybin to test psychedelics for his quest for immortality. Johnson documents extreme longevity measures—plasma transfusions from his son, more than 100 pills daily, genital Botox—and uses his campaign to promote Kernel and Blueprint. He promoted the shrooms livestream with kitschy Windows XP-style graphics and envisioned selling commercials; over a million people viewed the stream.
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