Half the average person’s waking life is spent at work. For many people this means sitting at a desk or in some other humanly unnatural position, with little to no physical movement. This is especially alarming when the correlation between corporate wellness and company output is so staggering. In short, the happier and healthier a company’s employees, the more likely a company to succeed. These aren’t just pretty words, there are shocking numbers to back it up: “…$250 million savings in lowered health costs and a 50% reduction in high blood pressure among employees” (author of Gladiator’s Guide to Corporate Health & Wealth). Yet with all the buzz around corporate wellness and the myriad of options with difficult to keep track of long-term results it’s easy to conclude health at your desk is just another fad. However, rest assured that your well being at the office isn’t going out of style! It’s absolutely here to stay, and now technology has made it so easy, that you don’t need to spend more time or added stress figuring it out. Nowadays, you can literally “sit to be healthy”! Keeping in mind male and female genital health, your circulation, lymph flow, knee and hip joints, pelvic and back, circulation to …
Ari Meisel: Make Everything in Life Easier
Ari Meisel is an author, speaker, coach and the creator of Less Doing, More Living, a set of practices and principles designed to help the overwhelmed become more effective. He’s appeared in The New York Times, Mashable, the Huffington Post and TED. Ari had to work his way up to get where he is now. At the age of 23 he was diagnosed with an incurable chronic condition called Crohn’s disease. His work Less Doing, More Living is the result of his journey of back to health by optimizing, automating and outsourcing everything in his life. Ari says: “For any challenge, the first thing to do is optimize it.” The disease was the point when Ari started to take his health seriously. After 4 months of self-experimentation and self-tracking he was able to get off of his meds, and 3 months after he was competing for his first triathlon. The complete recovery from Crohn’s disease as well as brilliant career as a productivity coach demonstrates the power of Less Doing. Ari emphasizes 9 elements of the Less Doing system: The 80/20 rule or Pareto’s law Creating an external brain Customization Choose your own work week Stop running errands Batching Organization Finance Wellness Ari also shares some productivity hacks, that helped him to get more …
Synthetic Biology Leads to New Forms of Life
Futurist and engineer Nell Watson from Faculty AI & Robotics at Singularity University spoke about “Nanomachines and Internal Computing” in her keynote at the Biohacker Summit 2015. Nell predicts that recent developments in nano-computing and synthetic biology are leading us to the explosion of new life forms. Already today neurosynaptic IBM chip has roughly the same amount of neurons as a bumble bee, which enables us to simulate animal cognition. Bioprinters are able to print biological material like bones or collagen. Nanobots crated by DNA origami technique, when placed in the blood stream can indicate leukemia cells and destroy them. “Watson believes computing power will increasingly merge with our innate functioning in the coming decades.” – says VICE.com According to Nell, not only the machines become a part of us, but machines and life have very similar structures. “AI can classify the world and make sense of it in the similar way that we do.” As an example Nell brings up successful experiment on cyborgization of a cockroach. By connecting electrodes from circuit board to the cockroach antennas one is able to control with the mobile app. In nature similar behavior control effect occurs in ants infected with cordyceps mushroom. “Life …
#4 Ari Meisel on the Art of Less Doing
In the fourth episode of Biohacker’s Podcast, Biohacker Teemu Arina interviews Ari Meisel. Ari Meisel is author, speaker, coach and the creator of Less Doing, More Living, a set of practices and principles designed to help the overwhelmed become more effective. Ari is a Crohn’s disease survivor that almost cost his career. Less Doing, More Living is the result of Ari’s journey back to health by optimizing, automating and outsourcing everything in his life. Ari currently lives with his wife and three boys in New York City and spends his days helping others master the life-changing principles of Less Doing. Ari has written the book Less Doing, More Living: Make Everything in Life Easier. [powerpress] Watch on video: “What would you do, if you could only work an hour a day?” Ari Meisel knows like no other what can happen if you do more than your body can take: “I put my body into a state of fragility and it broke…I was diagnosed with crohn’s disease. I got really, really sick. I have gone from working literally 18 hours a day into a state where I sometimes barely could do an hour of work a day…Very quickly I began to figure …
Virtual Assistants Get Things Done
Have you ever wondered what your work week would be like if you only had to focus on the essential things, and you could outsource the rest? Sure, all of us would like to find a balance between work and play, and get our work done as efficiently as possible. In reality the work week of an ordinary knowledge worker is anything but efficient: on average we spend two hours per day on interruptions. Clearly, being in the office 9-to-5 doesn’t mean getting things done 9-to-5. It’s time for a change and Mikko Ikola, entrepreneur and virtual assistant specialist, knows exactly how to upgrade from being an ordinary knowledge to worker to becoming a high-performing individual, with the help of outsourcing and virtual assistants. Check out the whole presentation to learn more! Stay tuned for more interesting videos from Biohacker Summit ’14 and remember to get your Biohacker Summit ’15 tickets here.
#3 Nell Watson On Artificial Intelligence
In the third episode of Biohacker’s Podcast, Biohacker Teemu Arina interviews Nell Watson. Nell Watson is an engineer, entrepreneur, and futurist thinker. Nell lectures globally on Machine Intelligence, AI philosophy, Human-Machine relations, and the Future of Human Society. She is a faculty member of the Singularity University, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics track and the founder & CEO of Poikos, “Instagram for body measurement”. Nell has taught post-grad Computer Science at the age of 24, advised a number of startups, accelerators, and venture capital funds and serves as an advisory futurist to The Lifeboat Foundation, which has a mission to protect humanity from existential risks that could end civilization as we know it, such as asteroid collisions, or rogue artificial intelligence. [powerpress] Check out some of the highlights of the interview with Nell Watson: “It’s been a strange journey. From the very young age I was inculcated with the love of engineering and technology and computer science from my engineer father. I was the only child so I kind of ended up getting all of his love of engineering and science. Unfortunately he killed himself when I was 11 and that altered my path and I ended up leaving school at a …
#2 Dr Cathal Gurrin on Lifelogging and Quantified Self
In the second episode of Biohacker’s Podcast, Biohacker Teemu Arina interviews Dr Cathal Gurrin. Cathal Gurrin is a lecturer at the School of Computing, at Dublin City University, Ireland and he is an investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics where he leads a research group of 10 people. He is also a visiting scientist at the University of Tromsø in Norway. Cathal Gurrin’s research interest is personal analytics and lifelogging (a search engine for the self). He is especially interested in how wearable sensors can be used to infer knowledge about the real-world activities of the individual and how such sensor data can be used to enhance the performance and health of the individual. Cathal has developed WWW search algorithms, multimedia content mining tools and he has gathered a digital memory since 2006 (incl. over 15 million wearable camera images) and hundreds of millions of other sensor readings. He regularly speaks at Quantified Self events and is the author of Lifelogging: Personal Big Data (PDF available), published in 2014 in the FNTIR series. [powerpress] Watch on video: Check out some of the highlights of the interview with Dr. Cathal Gurrin: “What happens if you want to find a bottle …
Upgrade Your 9-to-5 with Saku Tuominen
Did you know that completing tasks on your to-do list leads to excitement and endorphin increase in your body? The interesting part is that this happens even when the things on your lists are not valuable. Saku Tuominen, author and creative director from 925 Design, knows all about key problems in the office, and that the quality of our work is based on the quality of our thoughts. Check out the full presentation to see another take on how to upgrade 9-to-5 work as well as some interesting thoughts about Biohacking and Quantified Self as a concept. Biohacker Summit ’15 tickets for 23-24 September are still available! Buy tickets here before they’re sold out!
Biohacker’s Handbook Presents Biohacking the Work Week
If you are busy at work, every day, every week, it might be easy to neglect the core areas of our life such as nutrition, sleep and understanding what is going on in your body and your mind. Luckily, you can upgrade yourself and your performance with the latest biological and technological tools — the Biohacker’s Handbook is a must-have resource to do that successfully. In their presentation, technology specialist Teemu Arina, medical doctor Olli Sovijärvi, and nutrition specialist Jaakko Halmetoja will introduce how you can learn to understand your nutrition, sleep and mind and how you can affect and upgrade them using various methods and technologies. Check out the full video with plenty of practical tips and you can start upgrading yourself today! There are still a few Biohacker Summit ’15 early bird tickets available, but if you want to get something really special, VIP tickets are available here. With VIP tickets you will not just get the best out of the two-day event, you will also attend Upgraded Dinner and learn the latest biohacking techniques while preparing a 6-course dinner. Get your tickets today!
Top Tips for Lifehacking for Executives
At the age of fifteen, Martijn Aslander — Lifehacking veteran, Co-founder at SHIFT and Lifehacking.nl — discovered that you can make money by doing the same stuff that he was doing at Scouts. By the age of seventeen Martijn was running a company of 60 people from the back of his classroom. At the age of 21 he was managing 140 people. Martijn has always had a fascination with being able to do more in less time, with less stress, lower cost and more impact. Over the years of his career, Martijn has mastered the art of lifehacking, which is all about leveraging your talents and your time to accomplish more in less time. At Biohacker Summit ’14 Martijn Aslander shared some of the life hacks he uses himself in work space and work life, as well as interesting approaches to working with people, information, failure and ideas. Check out the full presentation for the great lifehacking tips and inspirational story of Martijn Aslander. Biohacker Summit ’15, to be held 23-24 September, is all about becoming better, faster, stronger! More lifehackers will be on stage including Ari Meisel from Less Doing and Ben Greenfield from Ben Greenfield Fitness Systems. Join the event and get your early …