I would like to start by learning a little bit about your morning routines. What is the most Silicon Valley thing about your morning routine? Zoe, you go first. Pretty much the first thing I do. It depends on where I am in my tech detox cycle. I either grab my phone and start furiously scrolling or I try and meditate.

One of the two.

Do you use an app to meditate?

Yeah, I use Insight Timer sometimes.

That's pretty Silicon Valley.

Lauren, what about you?

I sometimes walk up the hill that I live on.

That sounds like a song lyric.

But sometimes I do that thing where I face east to try to get

the natural sunlight as the day is rising because that's the thing that a lot of health and

wellness gurus talk about. Not sure that's Silicon Valley either, but I hear this on podcasts.

Yeah. What about you, Mike? I would say my sunrise alarm clock that glows at like 6 a.m.

every morning. It just very slowly turns from like dark orange to a soft sunlight tone. And it's

really helpful when the time changes because for me, the sun always comes up at exactly the same time

every morning. So it helps me optimize my morning. And you never over asleep? No, it always wakes me up.

It's kind of amazing. I have hacked my brain into waking up with it. And you said optimize and hack,

so you're the most Silicon Valley of us all.

This is Wired's Uncanny Valley, a show about the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley.

I'm Michael Collory, director of consumer tech and culture here at Wired.

And I'm Lauren Good. I'm a senior writer at Wired.

I'm Zoe Schiffer, Wired's director of business and industry. Today on the show, why are millionaires and billionaires in Silicon Valley so obsessed with living forever? We look at the CEOs and the venture

capitalists going all in on the race to beat death. They're hacking their bodies.

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