On: Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on being homeschooled

[klmadfejno]

> If everyone on this planet had solving death as their single-minded focus, we'd accomplish it within our lifetimes.

This is a particularly advanced form of wishful thinking.

[echelon → klmadfejno]

It's not wishful thinking. It's not going to happen.

We can, however, do a better job of championing science and long-term thinking.

I think setting a high water mark inspires people to reach for the stars, if only to land on the moon.

I like to imagine that world so that I can see the delta between.