7 years ago
“It just means that their measuring tape is wrong”
I love this quote from a recent Elon Musk email to his employees. In referring to how precise the design tolerances of the Model 3 should be, Elon says that …
Read More
How I Taught a 10-year-old to Love Python and Programming
This is a talk I gave in August 2014 at PyGotham, titled “How I Taught My 10-Year-Old Brother to Love Programming (and Python).”
(Note: the slides are somewhat out of …
Read More
12 years ago
Dunning Kruger Effect
[quote]”The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people are so full of doubts.”[/quote]
-Bertrand Russell
It’s close to …
Read More
13 years ago
Tips On Outsourcing
Outsourcing Works
Many people have asked me for some tips on outsourcing, especially more serious things than birthdays and flirting. These days it can be nearly impossible for a small …
Read More
13 years ago
Over 1000 Millionaires To Be Created By Facebook IPO
With Facebook set to IPO on May 18th and expected to raise over 10 Billion in case, somewhere around 1000 Millionares will be created out of Facebook employees. Pretty ridiclous, …
Read More
Outsourcing Birthdays and Flirting
I purchased the above video from a guy in England that I have never met. I found him on a website that is a favorite of mine, Fiverr. Fiverr …
Read More
13 years ago
NYC Bucket List
I found this list on Meta Filter and have co-opted it and plan to update and edit it as I go…Have any additions or subtractions? Let me know in the …
Read More
13 years ago
Writing Tips From Great Writers
Jack Kerouack’s 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life: These were apparently posted on the wall in the hotel of Allen Ginsberg a year before the poem “Howl” was …
Read More
13 years ago
Influence
This is an excerpt from one of my favorite books, and a classic on persuasion, Influence by Robert Cialdini. The idea that underlays the entire book is that humans have …
Read More
13 years ago
On Not Being Famous
So, you may not know this, but I’m not famous, like at all. No one knows who I am or cares what I do, so I post things freely and …
Read More
13 years ago
Lana Del Rey
I remember the first time I heard Lana Del Ray’s voice, I was surfing the web and had the HypeMachine playing in the background and her voice was so …
Read More
14 years ago
Tiny tUnE-yArDs Desk Concert
tUnE-yArDs (really annoying to spell out) is a bad ass band and while I don’t have much time to write about them right now, it is dumb to write about …
Read More
About Eric:
Eric Matzner is a futurist, biohacker, and transhumanist who lives in San Francisco and is the founder of Nootroo, a nootropics company, and Climitigation, a climate change mitigation think tank.
Eric is trying to live indefinitely, to run and at least stay in the same place. His body is less of a temple and more of a laboratory and workshop for pushing the limits of the brain's cognition, memory and learning ability. He also experiments with cutting-edge human lifespan extension and rejuvenation technologies and strives to make continual, incremental improvements towards optimal performance (kaizen).
Eric reads at over 1000 words per minute (using RSVP software), listens to books at between 2-3x, can type over 150 wpm (and is ranked in the 99.9 percentile of fastest typers as per typeracer.com). But he is always trying to go faster, so if you have any tips, send them over!