6 years ago
Going meta, by posting an analysis of a study on r/nootropics about an analysis of /r/nootropics posts
This article published last week, claims to be the first to use r/nootropics as a data source and is focused on the “not-so-productive, not-so-effective encounters with enhancement substances.” Their …
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6 years ago
Who knew I actually needed a functional gas mask? I didn’t expect my Halloween costume to come true so soon…
When I was shopping for a deadstock, surplus Russian gas mask to go with my Halloween costume, I didn’t think it would matter if it was functional or not. How …
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7 years ago
My Current Speed Reading Extensions For Chrome
Speed reading plugins and apps seem to come and go as fast as the words do at you in RSVP reading. I am currently using a combination of two extensions …
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7 years ago
Philosophical Basis of the Nootropic Concept
“Humanity will not wait millions of years until Mother Nature will eventually hand it a functionally better new brain, like an anniversary gift. On …
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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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7 years ago
Protocol For Reversing Cognitive Decline
Cognitive decline strikes in many different ways, including pathologies such as Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), but in the end many ways of describing how the brain has declined are related to …
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7 years ago
The Overlaps Between Longevity, Nootropics and Bodybuilding
I am in the middle of doing research on peptides used for healing a physical injury and the best solution is usually found within a community dedicated to that topic …
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8 years ago
Nootroo Featured On ABC’s Nightline News Segment On Nootropics
When ABC News reached out to me, I was concerned they were going to do a hit piece on nootropics, but they did a very well thought out and researched …
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8 years ago
Eric Matzner Featured On Voices of VR Podcast discussing “VR and The Mind”
This interview is what I consider to be my best podcast appearance to date, a conversation at the UploadVR’s VIP GDC mixer with , led to me rehashing the information …
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9 years ago
My Morning Routine On NPR’s KQED
Last month I was featured in a story for NPR’s KQED San Francisco affiliate in part of a series on biohacking, they wanted to see what a typical day or …
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10 years ago
Why We Shouldn’t Fear AI, But Why We Should Be Very Careful
There is a lot of talk going around these days related to fearing AI’s, many of these discussions in the mainstream were spurred by comments Elon Musk made relating to …
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11 years ago
Using Nanoparticles To Detect Cancer and Other Diseases
This week Google is out with the announcement that Google X is working on a system of nanoparticles that can be an early detector of diseases. Many times the diseases …
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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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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!