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Johnson: Relying on willpower to resist modern food environments is a losing game
“Trying to win this game with willpower is a losing game. If you put yourself in a situation where you have option A and option B, you're probably going to lose 50% of the time or more.”
Johnson: A person's organs and bodily systems age at different speeds
“Biologically, I'm a few hundred different ages. And so you, for example, if you're looking at the age of your heart, you can characterize The age of the heart through a few dozen markers. You can do the same thing with other parts of the body. So you're actual…”
Johnson: Never trade time for money; work for zero for asymmetric upside
“I was not willing to trade my time for money. You know, if someone was going to say, I'll pay you 15 dollars an hour to do blank. I didn't want to make that exchange. I wanted to say, I am willing to take zero for an indefinite period of time. In exchange, the…”
Johnson: Entrepreneurs must prioritize liquid cash over illiquid investments
“Cash is king. Like don't put your money in anything that's going to be illiquid. So there's been times in the past couple of years where I desperately needed cash and it was not, I didn't have liquid levels that I wanted it. And so liquidity for entrepreneurs …”
Johnson: Human conscious self-awareness is an inadequate sensor for brain health
“Most people think that their self-awareness Is basically the sensor system that captures their brain. Like because I'm conscious and because I can feel when I have a headache, it basically is a robust enough sensor system to do it. And that's not correct. So m…”
Johnson: True employee feedback is what they tell their spouse at home
“It's very hard to get someone's real opinion of you because it's difficult for someone to be honest, but what we all know when we go home from work and we're talking to our significant others, like that's the truth serum in action, you know, like where we real…”
Johnson: Medical imaging provides fundamentally better biological data than wearables or bloodwork
“So if you look at the pyramid of measurement, Wearables are like part of the first category. And then you get to biofluids, like blood draws and, you know, urine and whatever else. Imaging is an entirely different quality class. And so if you want to get reall…”