Hey everyone, it's Lauren. We're taking a little break this week, but we wanted to reshare an episode with you from the early days of Uncanny Valley.

This episode is all about how some folks in Silicon Valley have been funneling their time and money into extreme longevity or health optimization tech.

You probably already know a little bit about Brian Johnson and his

unusual biohacking regime and his personal quest to live forever. And we talk about that in the

episode, but this is a trend that started way before Brian and extends far beyond him. And in a lot of

ways, this whole trend is the ultimate reflection of Silicon Valley's

obsession with optimization. It's a really fun episode. Things get weird. And we hope that you

enjoy it. We'll be back next week with another new episode. I would like to start by learning a

little bit about your morning routines.

What is the most Silicon Valley thing about your morning routine?

Zoe, you go first.

Pretty much the first thing I do.

It depends on where I am in my tech detox cycle.

I either grab my phone and start furiously scrolling or I try and meditate. One of the two. Do you use an app to meditate? Yeah, I use Insight Timer sometimes. That's pretty Silicon Valley. Lauren, what about you?

I sometimes walk up the hill that I live on. That sounds like a song lyric. But sometimes I do that thing where I face east to try to get the natural sunlight as the day is rising because that's the thing that a lot of health and wellness gurus talk about.

Not sure that's Silicon Valley either, but I hear this on podcasts.

Yeah.

What about you, Mike?

I would say my sunrise alarm clock that glows at like 6 a.m. every morning, it just very slowly

turns from like dark orange to a soft sunlight tone.

And it's really helpful when the time changes, because for me, the sun always comes up at exactly the same time every morning.

So it helps me optimize my morning.

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