291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

4821.094 - 4849.728 Venki Ramakrishnan

I personally think that our mortality is what gives our lives meaning. there's a famous law, Parkinson's law, that work expands to fill available time. Now imagine if you had all the time in the world, you would just procrastinate. And I think that's a serious problem. It gives us the drive to get things done. It gives us some purpose in life. Now, I also think there's another problem.