Exploring and writing stories about the greatest minds in human history
Nov 19 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
This woman has the Highest IQ ever recorded (228).
Miles away from Einstein (160-190), Hawking (160) or Musk (155).
Despite this, she was ridiculed for her answer to what seemed a simple problem.
Yet she saw what no one else could.
Here's her story: 🧵
Marilyn Vos Savant wasn't your usual kid.
By age 10 she:
• Memorized entire books
• Read all 24 volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica
• Had the highest IQ ever recorded (228)
She was destined to be a genius.
But the reality was different.
Oct 29 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
This tech founder spent $2M on a radical experiment.
He turned his biological age from 42 to 21 in 5 months.
Now he spends $2M/year to make death optional.
Here is Bryan Johnson, the world's most monitored human 🧵
The results from his Blueprint are mind-blowing:
• Slowed pace of aging by the equivalent of 31 years
• Reduced biological age by 21 years in 5 months
• Accumulating aging damage slower than 88% of 18-year-olds
But why did Bryan start all this?
Oct 14 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
This man created the greatest money-printing machine in history.
His fund achieved 66%/yr (outperformed Warren Buffett's by 46%) for 30 YEARS.
Here's the story of the man who cracked Wall Street and built a $100B+ empire: 🧵
Jim Simons was a math prodigy from a young age.
He earned his PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley at 23.
His first big challenge was cracking soviet codes during the Cold War for the NSA.