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 …
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11 years ago
Hiding In Plain Sight
How often do we miss what is right in front of us? As entrepreneurs, it is important to realize that this happens more often than we know. The more focused …
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12 years ago
Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect
Practice makes perfect is a phrase you hear all the time, but no one is perfect. The fact is though, if you practice, you will become better at whatever you …
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12 years ago
How We Communicate
I recently read Brad Feld’s post, A Problem With Gmail When The Machines Take Over, and while the article is about the problems he faced with his email being unavailable due to an …
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13 years ago
How To Sell Umbrellas On Twitter
I just read Dan Shipper’s article comparing advertising on Twitter to selling umbrella’s in a synagogue. In the post, Dan makes an analogy comparing advertising, to men selling umbrella’s in New York …
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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 …
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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 …
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13 years ago
Story of the Broken Steamship Engine
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is an old story of a boilermaker who was hired to fix a huge steamship boiler system that was not working well. After listening to the engineer’s description of …
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13 years ago
Where Is The Innovation?
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]he attached article asks a good question about where the all of the innovation is in our country. We seem to be failing at pushing the boundaries in many sectors. …
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14 years ago
Men of Lofty Genius
“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are the most active.” -Leonardo Da Vinci
Obviously you can tell this is true because I am posting this …
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14 years ago
How Sierra Online Got Started In The Era of Floppy Disks
Read below about how Sierra-Online, a videogame distributor got started. Ken realized that there were a lot of games being programmed and a lot of new software stores opening around …
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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!