Johnson, 46, is a centimillionaire tech entrepreneur who has spent most of the last three years in pursuit of a singular goal: don’t die. During that time, he’s spent more than $4 million developing a life-extension system called Blueprint, in which he outsources every decision involving his body to a team of doctors, who use data to develop a strict health regimen to reduce what Johnson calls his “biological age.” That system includes downing 111 pills every day, wearing a baseball cap that shoots red light into his scalp, collecting his own stool samples, and sleeping with a tiny jet pack attached to his penis to monitor his nighttime erections. Johnson thinks of any act that accelerates aging—like eating a cookie, or getting less than eight hours of sleep—as an “act of violence.”

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    1 year ago

    “sleeping with a tiny jet pack attached to his penis to monitor his nighttime erections.”

    I mean, jet packs are cool but how does this work?

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      1 year ago

      I would Google the answer, but I’m worried I’ll gain another fetish.

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      1 year ago

      You’d think some sort of tilt sensor or something would do, maybe the jet pack activates throughout the night to simulate an erection for some reason.