The Red Pill Formula for Biohacking Cognitive Capital

To anyone who stays abreast of wide social trends, it’s increasingly obvious that the world is rapidly becoming worse for those of lower and average intelligence.

The extinction of jobs comprised of rote, repetitive, and unsophisticated tasks is a dire inevitability thanks to the aggressive innovation that our economy fundamentally relies on. In the past, those of low or average intelligence were practically guaranteed an unremarkable life of labor in a factory or a field, fast forward to the very near future and nothing is guaranteed. The only hope is to stay well ahead of the curve of automation. It’s time to invest in your own cognitive capital.

Update: The red pill formula is the differentiating feature of the smart drug that I created, Caballo. It's now EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE to clients of our flagship transformational program, Anakainōsis. However, you can enhance your cognitive capital by using the Nootropics and biohacking protocol described here.

What is Cognitive Capital?

Competitive firms are increasingly considering the impact on their bottom line of that which cannot be automated or outsourced; the cognitive abilities of their organization’s members.Professor Jerry Muller, the author of The Mind and the Market, articulated it best:

“…a period of growing equality of access to education and increasing stratification of marketplace rewards, both of which have increased the importance of human capital. One element of human capital is cognitive ability: quickness of mind, the ability to infer and apply patterns drawn from experience, and the ability to deal with mental complexity. Another is character and social skills: self-discipline, persistence, responsibility. And a third is actual knowledge. All of these are becoming increasingly crucial for success in the post-industrial marketplace.” (March 2013, Foreign Affairs)

Abilities heightened in those who are rich in Cognitive Capital...

* Working memory

* Rapid access to episodic memory

* Problem-solving ability

* Pattern recognition

* Mathematics proficiency

* Geo-spatial awareness

* Fluid intelligence

* Decision making

* Accuracy of semantic memory

The red pill

The ingredients of the Red Pill are selected for the advantage they imbue in cognitively demanding work, making it ideal for...

* Fixing a programming error in a block of RoR code

* Preparing a risk assessment for a client

* Studying for the MCAT exam

* Clarifying the quantitative analysis of a stock's trading patterns

* Engineering a widget

* Performing a backlink audit

* Making sense of sloppy accounting records

* Designing a really intuitive app or website

The Red Pill Formula is comprised of these pharmaceutical-grade Nootropics...

Oxiracetam

An Ampakine that modulates the AMPA Receptor and promotes long-term potentiation (LTP) according to a paper published in the British Journal of Pharmacology. Long-term potentiation is the foundation of memory, it’s the process of signal enhancement on a microscopic level between neurons. We rely on it for personal development, learning new skill sets, and much more.The racetam is reported anecdotally all over the Internet to aid logic, mathematic, or spatial intelligence-intensive tasks. To quote an insightful review of the smart drug:

“Sometimes ideas and concepts will come to mind seemingly void of emotion, meaning it is (apparently) easier to get to the point of the matter. This is a difficult concept to articulate. I can see a potential advantage in those cases in where emotional bias might otherwise cloud one’s logical reasoning process.”

In the second part of Professor Muller’s statement, he lists self-discipline as an important factor in human capital, I’ve often called Oxiracetam the discipline molecule, because when I’m on it I just do a hundred percent of what I know I should be doing. It’s one of the most effective biohacks for self-control.

Pramiracetam

A University of Modena study of 35 men compared and contrasted the effects of memory training and Pramiracetam, it concluded:

Results showed that objective memory gains of the two groups receiving pramiracetam were significantly larger than that of the [memory training] and [control] groups… In the [drug therapy] group, the level of depression, negatively interfered with metamemory but not with actual memory performance.

From a 2010 review:

[Pramiracetam] significantly improved some memory activities, especially delayed recall (30–50%) during 18 months of therapy and 1 month of follow- up.

Alpha-GPC

The third factor of human capital is technical skill sets and abilities. Neuroplasticity is the capacity of our minds to adapt to novelty — learning Portuguese, studying philosophy, or starting a martial art — and thrive. Personal development of any significance requires that the gears of the mechanisms of Neuroplasticity are well-greased.A 2009 paper Alternative medicine review stated: [Alpha GPC] is neuroprotective and supports neuroplasticity via nerve growth factor receptors. ACh plays an especially important role in the formation of new long-term memories; a 2007 German study of 12 healthy human subjects, includes some great insights, Cholinergic neuromodulation is pivotal for arousal, attention, and cognitive processes… The German study went on to say that…

…it has been hypothesized that ACh enhances the signal-to-noise ratio of input processing… These findings are in line with a cholinergic focusing effect that optimizes the detection of relevant signals during information processing in humans.

This finding is great news for overwhelmed lifehackers, entrepreneurs, professionals, and students, who face the continual challenge of distraction. The healthy Germans in the study got better at focusing on the important information due to the long-term excitability that ACh facilitates. It’s well said that we live finite lives in an age of infinite distraction; the screens that are rarely further than an arm’s reach away from us are constantly socially engineering us to ignore our actual goals and instead get stuck in the quicksand of digital amusement. Nootropics like this are a potent tool for getting unstuck.

Noopept

There are two proposed mechanisms of action of Noopept...

* Sensitizing effect on acetylcholine processes — Noopept has a synergistic ‘cholinosensitizing’ effect with the Alpha-GPC in Caballo, wherein acetylcholine delivery to the neuron is improved.

* Induction of neurotrophin production — according to a