2024 Update: I update this list on a yearly basis, and this year the phrase that comes to mind doing so is "Only the good die young." The global economic contraction continues and the Nootropics industry is feeling the squeeze, sadly a handful of very good vendors who maintained high standards for their supplements appear to have gone out of business. And some vendors, like Science.bio are closing shop NOT because of a lack of interest in biohacking and longevity but because of government regulation (Let’s GO, Brandon!) The American “public health” agencies don’t think that you and I should have the right to cultivate, enhance, and maintain our health as we see fit. Science.bio choosing to NOT just stop selling edgier research chemicals, but shut down totally does not bode well for the rest of the industry. You might say, American regulators shutting down one company is not that big of a deal… Well, the USA is such a huge market for Nootropics and health products that it drives the global market. When a business fails in the free market it’s sure to be replaced by a better business shortly, but when a business fails because of authoritarian government regulation that creates a chilling effect — scaring entrepreneurs away from serving the markets’ needs. It makes me wonder if some of the best smart drugs, like Piracetam, will become Unobtainium one day…

Anyone considering taking nootropics to boost their brainpower is presented with an overwhelming amount of information as they begin their Google searching: competing brands and stacks, along with hundreds of different ingredients both synthesized and organic to consider.

Unless you are a nutritionist or have a formal science education it's close to impossible to know where to draw the line between fact and disinformation, between credible science and clever marketing.

Inspired by the style of Memoir from Antproof Case

It was a romance that burned hotter than most, which is no extraordinary thing - what’s extraordinary is how long it has burned hot.
Not all men (if they are being honest), can say that they’ve had a grand and all-consuming passionate love affair in their lives - that they’ve had a “love of their lives.” Most men settle; they find their partners in the space between lurching after the biological urge and compromising their values and standards to buy a bit of comfort.
I have had a love of my life - a star that shines so bright that it blots out all others while serving as a celestial beacon to navigate by to a mythological land of abundance. This is our love story, what we kindled now burns hotter than ever.

The new Anakainōsis program presents a unique opportunity, for you and I to do a bunch of cool Biohacking stuff together in person (at your location OR in Europe where I live).

This program, which for you will be a transformation that authors a legacy that echoes in eternity begins with four deep-dive discovery conversations (60-90 minutes each)...

1. Your Biohacking and Nootropics regimen - what biohacks you've tried, what's working, and what isn't.
2. Current state of your life - goals, relationships, fears, vices, addictions - what challenges you are struggling with.
3. Your life experiences along with your values, principles, beliefs, and faith - what drives you on a deep level?
4. What is your exponential 10X blue ocean - what might you do better than anyone else on Earth?

These conversations are the foundation of the transformative program and from which I will derive the grand narratives underlying your unique and original Anakainōsis book - made to last 200 years by a master artisan. While these can be done via VOIP, it would be really cool to do them in person! This would give me a different view of you, which I can capture in the book which will stand as a testament to your legacy.

NZT-48, the fictional "Limitless" drug cost $800. Are pricey real-life Nootropics worth it?

The most expensive Nootropic I'm aware of is...

Can you think of a non-fiction book that you enjoyed reading about 10 years ago?

I can think of a few, The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, for example, which a rapper friend of mine recommended to me. What do you remember from books that you read a decade ago?

Not much, right? Isn’t reading dense non-fiction kind of a waste of time if you don’t remember much from what you read? Reading is, of course, a better pastime than TV or browsing social media, but if you are only going to remember one or two factoids from a book that takes you 10–20 hours to read that’s not a great way to spend the limited time you have to devote towards intellectual growth.

So I’ll share four reading lifehacks for optimizing your metabolism of the knowledge in these pages into wisdom…