Is there any practical ways to apply some of this research today? It seems like there must be something out there we can be doing right now to help ward off aging?

Also what is the most promising research being done?

Insider trading?

Lift heavy weights. Eat as much as you can stomach, then eat some more. It isn't rocket science. Seriously just eat 5 huge meals a day and a protein shake before and after you workout. You will put on muscle like nobody's business. It's also the ONLY way to do it...

If it really was this simple as with loosing weight (basically eat less and workout right?) then all dieting courses, pills, books and so on wouldn't sell. But they do and that's why this would sell too.

It's simple, but that doesn't mean it's easy.

You should make this into a Django app that people can plugin to their admin interfaces. It would be a great tool for on the fly code development, bug fixes, etc.

Unfortunately there is really no way to get these things as an employee, excluding Wall Street (fuck those guys :) ).

The logical conclusion is to start your own company.

Nice man!! I've been following your progress for a while, congrats congrats congrats! Very curious to know how you made out...

You would be surprised. A lot of these guys write the most horrific code you will ever see.

So so poignant. I guarantee you there are about 25 people with articles half-way written who are cursing your name...

Which office is this?

I would never work at a startup without 1 or more of the following:

1.) Same pay as big-corp + much more interesting problem domain.

2.) More pay than big-corp scaled by the extra hours (not a 1:1 scaling)

3.) Large amount of equity. Enough that if the founders become tens of millionaires, I become a millionaire.

The issue being actually accomplishing #3. As a founder I can't afford to give you a huge chunk of the company (lets say 10% all by yourself). So I give you and the other 4 employees each 5%. That is going to be diluted down to god knows how little by series C. Probably something in the range of 0.5%-1% in a lot of cases. Now your screwed either way.

The simple fact is, when investors are involved there is NEVER enough equity to go around.

"In the general case, if n is the fraction of the company you're giving up, the deal is a good one if it makes the company worth more than 1/(1 - n)." http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html

you took money because it made your smaller % worth more. so why are we even talking about %s?

5% is still pretty good. The fact is most people offer .1% -> 1%, which is practically worthless after dilution.