Perspective: The key to glorifying a questionable diet? Be a tech bro and call it 'biohacking.'
Jack Dorsey, chief executive of Twitter and Square, speaks with members of the media following an Empowering Entrepreneurs event at Ryerson University in Toronto. By Monica Hesse Monica Hesse Style reporter Email Bio Follow Columnist April 11 at 2:04 PM One night in college, a member of my four-person study group showed up with a bunch of Snickers bars from a campus giveaway. The only man in the group picked one up and casually read the nutrition label.
Is there something odd or disordered about Jack Dorsey's eating? Maybe he's just a try-guy, on a perpetual quest to see what makes his body feel and perform the best. He's spoken in the past about dabbling in veganism, in paleo, in consuming so much beta carotene that his skin turned orange. Maybe he's just that kind of person; we don't have sufficient data to suggest otherwise.
I don’t know why we’re so reverential of the eating behaviors of Silicon Valley executives, except I sort of think I know why. These men completely revolutionized the way we took photographs, paid for services, connected with relatives and moved through the world. There’s something tantalizing in the idea that they also hold the key to revolutionizing our bodies.
Soylent received $20 million in venture capital, but some commenters pointed out that Soylent has essentially already been around for 40 years. It’s called SlimFast. And it’s marketed not to tech bros, but to women who also have important pursuits, but who additionally know, in a rapid-response way, how many calories are in a Snickers bar.It's fascinating to watch the language of food consumption mutate as it travels across genders. For decades,"dieting" was the domain of women.
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