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Silicon Valley's Latest Lifehack: Death
Even as entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and billionaires invest their time, bodies and fortunes in the project of cheating death, they’re also increasingly finding solace in something else: an ancient Greek intellectual tradition that views the natural rhythms of the life cycle—which is to say, dying—as a central fact of being. Which, most would ar
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Jonathan Simcoe added 8mo ago
In Silicon Valley, going to extraordinary lengths to raise one’s life expectancy is like wearing FiveFinger shoes to work or microdosing LSD during a hackathon: a quirk that barely registers as a quirk.
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Jonathan Simcoe added 8mo ago
“The man who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive,” as Seneca put it.
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