It took me a shockingly long time to get to read Steven Johnson’s Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer. In my top 10 authors list for about 15 years now, his is one of the voices I most trust on innovation - I perhaps misread the title, and conflated it with the ‘longevity bro’ titles out there, which promise immortality in return for some NAD or rapamycin… It isn’t about that, but a wonderful (short) history of why we stopped dying and why we started, as a population, living longer. It is a book that, like
New ways for new things
New ways for new things
New ways for new things
It took me a shockingly long time to get to read Steven Johnson’s Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer. In my top 10 authors list for about 15 years now, his is one of the voices I most trust on innovation - I perhaps misread the title, and conflated it with the ‘longevity bro’ titles out there, which promise immortality in return for some NAD or rapamycin… It isn’t about that, but a wonderful (short) history of why we stopped dying and why we started, as a population, living longer. It is a book that, like