This was a helpful reminder to focus on the basics first.
For the median well-off Silicon Valley person spending money on longevity, two free interventions dominate the entire effect of everything they buy by a wide and somewhat embarrassing margin:
- Get enough sleep, and…
- Don’t be lonely.
Everything downstream of those two things is, at best, rounding error, and at worst, a way to feel like you’re doing something so you don’t have to do the hard things.