Extreme Biohacking With Serge Faguet (Biohacker’s LIVE Show)
Biohacker’s Live Show features top experts in optimal human performance as if they were in your living room. Your host is Teemu Arina, the co-author of the Biohacker’s Handbook and curator of the Biohacker Summit. Catch each episode by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes here. Serge Faguet is a serial entrepreneur, extreme biohacker and CEO of Mirror AI. Previously he founded Ostrovok, Russia’s largest online travel company with $500m in turnover. While there he raised >$50m in capital and led the company to EBITDA profitability and >300 employees. Before that, he founded TokBox, a leading B2B video communication company with ~$50m ARR, funded by Sequoia Capital. He has also worked at Google and studied at Cornell and Stanford GSB. In addition to being a tech CEO, Serge is a diehard biohacker who is keen on having better energy, mood, focus, happiness, confidence, willpower, intelligence, health, and longevity. His hobby for the past 5-6 years has been to achieve the above-mentioned attributes by hacking the body and mind through science. As a part of that journey Serge has optimized sleep, nutrition, and exercise, taken thousands of tests, meditated > 1000 times, and worked with some amazing doctors. He wrote two very …
#4 Ari Meisel on the Art of Less Doing
In the fourth episode of Biohacker’s Podcast, Biohacker Teemu Arina interviews Ari Meisel. Ari Meisel is author, speaker, coach and the creator of Less Doing, More Living, a set of practices and principles designed to help the overwhelmed become more effective. Ari is a Crohn’s disease survivor that almost cost his career. Less Doing, More Living is the result of Ari’s journey back to health by optimizing, automating and outsourcing everything in his life. Ari currently lives with his wife and three boys in New York City and spends his days helping others master the life-changing principles of Less Doing. Ari has written the book Less Doing, More Living: Make Everything in Life Easier. [powerpress] Watch on video: “What would you do, if you could only work an hour a day?” Ari Meisel knows like no other what can happen if you do more than your body can take: “I put my body into a state of fragility and it broke…I was diagnosed with crohn’s disease. I got really, really sick. I have gone from working literally 18 hours a day into a state where I sometimes barely could do an hour of work a day…Very quickly I began to figure …
#3 Nell Watson On Artificial Intelligence
In the third episode of Biohacker’s Podcast, Biohacker Teemu Arina interviews Nell Watson. Nell Watson is an engineer, entrepreneur, and futurist thinker. Nell lectures globally on Machine Intelligence, AI philosophy, Human-Machine relations, and the Future of Human Society. She is a faculty member of the Singularity University, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics track and the founder & CEO of Poikos, “Instagram for body measurement”. Nell has taught post-grad Computer Science at the age of 24, advised a number of startups, accelerators, and venture capital funds and serves as an advisory futurist to The Lifeboat Foundation, which has a mission to protect humanity from existential risks that could end civilization as we know it, such as asteroid collisions, or rogue artificial intelligence. [powerpress] Check out some of the highlights of the interview with Nell Watson: “It’s been a strange journey. From the very young age I was inculcated with the love of engineering and technology and computer science from my engineer father. I was the only child so I kind of ended up getting all of his love of engineering and science. Unfortunately he killed himself when I was 11 and that altered my path and I ended up leaving school at a …
#2 Dr Cathal Gurrin on Lifelogging and Quantified Self
In the second episode of Biohacker’s Podcast, Biohacker Teemu Arina interviews Dr Cathal Gurrin. Cathal Gurrin is a lecturer at the School of Computing, at Dublin City University, Ireland and he is an investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics where he leads a research group of 10 people. He is also a visiting scientist at the University of Tromsø in Norway. Cathal Gurrin’s research interest is personal analytics and lifelogging (a search engine for the self). He is especially interested in how wearable sensors can be used to infer knowledge about the real-world activities of the individual and how such sensor data can be used to enhance the performance and health of the individual. Cathal has developed WWW search algorithms, multimedia content mining tools and he has gathered a digital memory since 2006 (incl. over 15 million wearable camera images) and hundreds of millions of other sensor readings. He regularly speaks at Quantified Self events and is the author of Lifelogging: Personal Big Data (PDF available), published in 2014 in the FNTIR series. [powerpress] Watch on video: Check out some of the highlights of the interview with Dr. Cathal Gurrin: “What happens if you want to find a bottle …