Founder of Braintree Payments
by a quiet mind allowing for high quality sleep.
“Let’s have a great week together. Powered by a quiet mind allowing for high quality sleep. Daily before bed, read Endurance for 30 min. No screens. No ruminations. Imagine yourself a member of Shackleton’s crew. pic.twitter.com/OuLB0wRrbk”
— Twitter/X
“Book rec: A Good Man by @Mark_Shriver Helped me rebuild my parent identity and my parent-child relationships when transitioning through a divorce. A short clip on what I found useful.”
— Twitter/X
“Just finished @peterthiel's Zero to One. A must read.”
— Twitter/X
“I have gifted A Good Man to quite a few people and Shackleton and Victor Frankl’s book. A Good Man I gift because if we contemplate how – like I wonder what would my son or daughter say about me? What kind of biography would they write? And that is a model for me I would want. Shackleton, that is how I want to behave in life and Frankl, that is how I – his basic point is no matter the conditions we surround ourselves in, we can author our life. We can author however we respond. I guess I will also throw in there Siddhartha. Have you read that?”
— Tim Ferriss Podcast
“Here's the list 0) Number: The Language of Science 1) When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought 2) Zero: Biography of a Dangerous Idea 3) A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age 4) Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions”
— Twitter/X
“5) The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age 6) Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 7) But What If We’re Wrong? 8) Behave”
— Twitter/X
“Here's the list 0) Number: The Language of Science 1) When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought 2) Zero: Biography of a Dangerous Idea 3) A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age 4) Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions”
— Twitter/X
“Congratulations to @PeterAttiaMD on his new book Outlive. A great read and clearly a labor of love. pic.twitter.com/HfJatHcKSb”
— Twitter/X
“On the other side of our cognitive biases is elite-level success. Ray Dalio’s financial firm, Bridgewater, has methodically and systematically worked to remove their cognitive shortcomings and their performance speaks for itself. Ray open sourced Bridgewater’s methods in Principles and the results were good evidence that collectives can operate at higher levels when they are open and honest about and can see past their cognitive flaws.”
— Medium.com
“I have gifted A Good Man to quite a few people and Shackleton and Victor Frankl’s book. A Good Man I gift because if we contemplate how – like I wonder what would my son or daughter say about me? What kind of biography would they write? And that is a model for me I would want. Shackleton, that is how I want to behave in life and Frankl, that is how I – his basic point is no matter the conditions we surround ourselves in, we can author our life. We can author however we respond. I guess I will also throw in there Siddhartha. Have you read that?”
— Tim Ferriss Podcast
“A month ago I finished reading Why We Sleep. Not only did I become convinced that getting high-quality sleep is the best protector and enhancer of health and cognition, but it is also the most underappreciated.”
— Medium.com
“5) The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age 6) Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 7) But What If We’re Wrong? 8) Behave”
— Twitter/X
“Zero: Biography of a Dangerous Idea”
— 34 books Bryan Johnson mentioned, ranked! - Recommentions
“We'd be wise to embrace #AI as a tool for self-improvement, rather than regard it as a menacing threat. I spoke about this with @MFordFuture for his new book, #ArchitectsOfIntelligence.”
— Twitter/X
“Congrats to my friend @andrewrazeghi on his new book Bend the Curve, a great read @techstars”
— Twitter/X
“5) The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age 6) Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 7) But What If We’re Wrong? 8) Behave”
— Twitter/X
“Yes, have read both [Replying to: Hope the "Deviate" by @rbeaulotto and "How to change your mind" by @michaelpollan are on your list.]”
— Twitter/X
“Really value books/people who can reframe a popular narrative into an original thesis”
— Twitter/X
by Michael Pollan
“books recommended by Bryan Johnson”
— Bryan Johnson - Good Books
by Robert T. Kiyosaki
“Robert Kiyosaki's book contrasts the financial philosophies of two father figures, with the difference between acquiring assets that generate income and accumulating liabilities that drain it.”
— 10 Books That Teach You More About Money Than Most Finance Classes
“I'm a third of the way through this book. It's hard to understand why we're not obsessed with alignment and on the other hand it's entirely expected we humans wouldn't be.”
— Twitter/X
“Here's the list 0) Number: The Language of Science 1) When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought 2) Zero: Biography of a Dangerous Idea 3) A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age 4) Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions”
— Twitter/X
“loved this book. when I want to get my mind in a forward looking state, I'll listen to one of the final chapter and then do some work.”
— Twitter/X
“5) The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age 6) Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 7) But What If We’re Wrong? 8) Behave”
— Twitter/X
“I'd love to listen in to Tolkien's mind, to observe what he thought about that didn't end up in his books”
— Twitter/X
by Thomas Stanley and William Danko
“The Millionaire Next Door reveals that most American millionaires are frugal, disciplined, and live below their means.”
— 10 Books That Teach You More About Money Than Most Finance Classes
by Julian Jaynes
“Jaynes argues that human consciousness, as we understand it, is not an eternal feature of the human species but a recent development shaped by language and metaphor.”
— Book of the Day: The Origin of Consciousness by Julian Jaynes — The radical theory that rewrote the human mind
by Morgan Housel
“Morgan Housel makes a compelling case that financial success has less to do with intelligence and more to do with behavior.”
— 10 Books That Teach You More About Money Than Most Finance Classes
by George S. Clason
“The Richest Man in Babylon delivers financial principles that haven't aged a day.”
— 10 Books That Teach You More About Money Than Most Finance Classes
by Napoleon Hill
“Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich focuses on the mindset required to build wealth, including desire, faith, persistence, and definite purpose.”
— 10 Books That Teach You More About Money Than Most Finance Classes
by Daniel Kahneman
“I started reading [this book] and I became increasingly convinced of my own fickleness and inability to actually act rationally in life.”
— Bryan Johnson Book Recommendations (All-Time) — Venture Book Club
“Thank you @timoreilly. Means a lot coming from you. I loved your book especially your sections on algorithms and focusing on improving human ability for the future of jobs”
— Twitter/X
by Joe Vitale
“Chronicles how hard it was for humanity to come up with and hold onto the concept of zero. No zero, no math. No zero, no engineering. No zero, no modern world as we know it...”
— Bryan Johnson Recommended Books
