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# About

This is a compact snapshot of the thinkers and books that have shaped how I think about knowledge, progress, markets, evolution, risk, and technology.

## Interests

I’m a generalist and an aspiring polymath. Here’s the stuff I enjoy reading and talking about:

* **Technology**: AI agents, web3, crypto, digital hygiene, productivity hacks, quantified self, LLMs, quantum computing
* **Health/Longevity**: exercising, sleep optimization, [healthy diets](https://x.com/PaulRBerg/status/1778820067796439057), [supplements](https://x.com/PaulRBerg/status/1727422702611574845), [nootropics](https://x.com/PaulRBerg/status/1623289944801173504), gene editing, anti-aging, Blueprint.
* **Philosophy**: epistemology, morality, memetics, consciousness, AGI, identity through the lens of Everettian quantum theory, political philosophy.
* **Psychology**: theory of mind, personality theory, psychedelics, mental health, evolutionary psychology.
* **Misc**: quantum theory, evolution, genetics, sociology.

## Influences

* David Deutsch
* Karl Popper
* Naval Ravikant
* Charles Darwin
* Richard Dawkins
* Gad Saad
* Bryan Johnson
* Vitalik Buterin
* Friedrich Hayek
* Nassim Taleb

## Favorite Books

* *The Beginning of Infinity* by David Deutsch
* *Fabric of Reality* by David Deutsch
* *The Open Society and Its Enemies* by Karl Popper
* *The Almanack of Naval Ravikant* by Eric Jorgenson
* *Zero to One* by Peter Thiel
* *Meditations* by Marcus Aurelius
* *The Road to Serfdom* by F. A. Hayek
* *The Descent of Man* by Charles Darwin