May 5, 2026 · 55 min · 17 segments
Kara Swisher has built an impressive career reporting on–and forcefully critiquing–the world of tech, especially the ultra-wealthy power players increasingly calling the shots. Since Steve Job’s death…
Kara SwisherGuest
Anna SaleHost
In this new CNN series, Kara makes fun of a lot of the wellness and tech investment that's built up around preventing aging, decline, and death.
He turned the $2 million he spends a year on self-experimentation into a company that sells everything from supplements to olive oil to a $1,000 red light hair loss hat.
It's death cope.
Humans have been dying since the dawn of time.
And then therefore, humans have been shipping products about death-
... to help people buy the product that helps them make sense of it.
Reincarnation, heaven, you know, immortality through deeds.
Like, those are the products people buy to reconcile with this inevitable death.
When death no longer happens, or somehow it's extended a long time, people are not gonna buy those products anymore.
They're gonna buy different moral philosophy products.
Exactly right.
And Kara contrasts this with another view on death from Silicon Valley, from Steve Jobs, who talked openly about death as he was treated for pancreatic cancer before his death in 2011, including in a commencement address at Stanford University.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your heart.
In this new CNN series, Kara makes fun of a lot of the wellness and tech investment that's built up around preventing aging, decline, and death.
He turned the $2 million he spends a year on self-experimentation into a company that sells everything from supplements to olive oil to a $1,000 red light hair loss hat.
It's death cope.
Humans have been dying since the dawn of time.
And then therefore, humans have been shipping products about death-
... to help people buy the product that helps them make sense of it.
Reincarnation, heaven, you know, immortality through deeds.
Like, those are the products people buy to reconcile with this inevitable death.
When death no longer happens, or somehow it's extended a long time, people are not gonna buy those products anymore.
They're gonna buy different moral philosophy products.
Exactly right.
And Kara contrasts this with another view on death from Silicon Valley, from Steve Jobs, who talked openly about death as he was treated for pancreatic cancer before his death in 2011, including in a commencement address at Stanford University.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your heart.
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Soylent Green Facepalm
Kara unloads on wellness absurdities.
Fund Science, Not Yourself
She redirects obsession toward public good.
Numbers Don’t Add Years
She punctures the biohacking fixation.
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