From Inside Your Gut to Outer Space: Moonshots with Naveen Jain : 541
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges through unique innovation. He is the founder of several successful companies including Moon Express, Viome, Bluedot, TalentWise, Intelius and InfoSpace.
Naveen is a trustee of the board at the XPRIZE Foundation where he is focused on using incentive prizes to find solutions to many of the societal challenges. He recently launched a million-dollar Women Safety XPRIZE to empower the women around the world.
We recorded this episode of Bulletproof Radio, live and in person, at the XPRIZE event.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:16.6 | Today's cool fact of the day is that two US economists who received the 2018 Nobel |
| 0:21.5 | Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded that for their efforts this month to untangle |
| 0:28.1 | the economics of climate change and technological innovations. |
| 0:33.2 | These guys are William Nordhaus and Paul Romer and they quote significantly broaden the |
| 0:37.5 | scope of economic analysis by constructing models to explain how the market economy |
| 0:42.4 | interacts with nature and knowledge according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. |
| 0:47.9 | Their work was based on two computer simulations that weigh the costs and benefits of taking |
| 0:51.6 | various steps to slow global warming. |
| 0:55.0 | The EPA has used their work among others to estimate the economic impacts of climate |
| 0:59.4 | change. |
| 1:01.4 | The reason this is really important is that I don't fundamentally believe that people |
| 1:05.6 | are evil or bad. |
| 1:07.5 | I think that what happens is we set up systems and we make trillions of micro decisions. |
| 1:13.2 | We do this inside companies, even companies who spray poison all over our soil and things |
| 1:17.2 | like that. |
| 1:18.2 | No one stood up and said, I am the dark emperor and I will destroy the world. |
| 1:23.4 | What happened is hundreds of thousands of people made tiny decisions that resulted in |
| 1:27.9 | an unexpected outcome. |
| 1:29.9 | These guys are untangling the math behind that. |
| 1:32.5 | I think that's really important because this happens in health care. |
| 1:35.3 | This happens in what the government tells us we're supposed to eat versus what we should |
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