Blue Zones' Dan Buettner: "Fine-tuning the human machine"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Dan Buettner to talk about how to live a longer, healthier life (6:00), keeping it simple (8:55), what happens when a spouse dies (11:15), what are “blue zones” (11:30), the secret to longevity (14:30), why happiness doesn’t include a car (16:15), why genes don’t matter that much (18:40), why happiness is important (20:30), the sleep industry (23:10), where we have gone wrong (24:40), designing cities (27:40), how he set records cycling around the world (33:00), testing his “blue zones” theories (35:40), death by over-nutrition (38:05), the ‘food as medicine’ movement (39:30), and leaving the last piece of mutton (41:55).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:02.0	What is it all about?
0:04.0	The CEO is accountable for how they treat their workers.
0:08.0	So when I say one, two, three, you say solidarity.
0:11.0	One, two, three, solidarity.
0:13.0	One, two, three.
0:15.0	Solidarity.
0:16.0	One, two, three.
0:17.0	Solidarity.
0:18.0	Thank you very much.
0:20.0	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley.
0:25.0	Thank you for tuning in it.
0:26.0	It has been a busy, busy week, and we have a great show for you.
0:30.4	But before we get to the main interview, which I think you're really getting to enjoy, a couple things.
0:36.1	One, I don't know if you heard, but Uber, little ride hailing company, they're going public.
0:41.7	Yeah, so just over 10 years after Travis Kalenek founded the company as a black car service,
0:47.7	it is an empire.
0:49.8	Now, it's making huge, astoundingly large losses, and it's not clear how they're ever going to turn a profit.
0:55.6	But it is an empire.
0:57.3	Last year, they passed 10 billion rides.
1:00.0	And so when the company goes public, a lot of those workers will become millionaires overnight.
1:06.8	And it also meant a few billionaires, it's a calenic among them.
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