The Upgrade Program

UP QUOTES

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”

T.S. Eliot

How is UP designed?

Your Upgrade Program (UP) is designed around you: your unique personality, life circumstances, and life goals. It’s built upon three pillars, six modes, 50+ design principles, 500+ concepts, and 42 life areas

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Emerging Technology

Mindfully incorporating the most useful AIs, apps, wearables, smart devices, nootropics, psychedelics, supplements, and other tools and services makes you fantastically more effective in life. UP guides you to the technology best suited for you.

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Behavioral Sciences

Understanding the science of how to live well is extremely useful. But the research literature is huge and growing extremely fast. UP acts as your personal research assistant and operationalizes what is most useful for you, when you need it most.

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Applied Rationality

Your brain is the most complex tool you possess. And it’s notoriously full of buggy software (e.g., procrastination, self-deception, etc.). UP helps you debug that software and better understand yourself and more effectively pursue your goals. 

What is the UP Protocol?

The UP Protocol is a systematic method for upgrading your life in the most efficient and effective way we know how. It revolves around a self-adaptive 1,157 step checklist, covering everything from anti-aging protocols to Zettelkasten note-taking.

The aim is to save you thousands or tens of thousands of hours of time over your lifetime. Instead of “reinventing the wheel”, you could build your “next generation wheel” off our existing blueprint. Save yourself 20+ years of research and experimentation.

UP is usually split into 7 design, execution, and research phases spread over 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 10 years or 100 years. An extremely compressed version can also be done in 1 day. Each phase or specific activity is adapted based on your needs and preferences. No two UPs are the same.

If needed, we can pull from our UP Network to create your personalized team of coaches, chiefs of staff, assistants, doctors, psychologists, exercise physiologists, registered dieticians, financial advisors, personal stylists, and other experts. They become your UP Team. But the choice is yours: do it on your own for free or with our help for a fee.

These participant examples, case studies, and analogies may help you get a sense for what UP feels like.

Don’t worry if it seems overwhelming at first—so does climbing Mount Everest, building a trillion-dollar company or inventing heavier-than-air flight. We know these feats are possible to do. UP is an attempt to make them more probable for you.

  • Determine Upgradable Capacity: an analysis of whether Upgradable has the resources to initiate your UP
  • Determine Client Fit: an analysis to determine the fit between you and UP
  • Handle Logistics: a process for handling all of the necessary paperwork, scheduling, and other logistics involved in running your UP
  • Conduct Orientation: an open conversation around what you want out of UP, UP’s theory and operations, some guidelines, and expectations and norms
  • Begin Epistemic Housekeeping: a socratic dialectic to help you “know thyself” and examine your core worldview, key beliefs, and system for updating what you “know”
  • Build Life Self-Model: a process to investigate who you are and who you wish to be
  • Build Exocortex: a process to build the meta-tool you use to store all of your knowledge, execute all of your tasks, manage your time and money, communicate with all of your stakeholders, and help you focus on what’s most important every moment of every day
  • Build Life Calculator: a process to quantitatively prioritize your life goals
  • Set Life Goals: a process to identify, set, and prioritize your life goals
  • Create Life Plan: a process to plan and achieve your life goals
  • Create Life Dashboard: a process to track your life metrics
  • Set Annual Goals: a process to identify, set, and prioritize your annual goals
  • Design Personal Team: a process to build and/or improve your personal team
  • Design Time: a process to improve your time management
  • Design Finances: a process to improve your finances
  • Design Environments: a process to improve your surrounding environments
  • Take Baseline Assessments: a process to develop and take a set of baseline measures for the things you value
  • Plan UP Week: a week where you live according to your optimal schedule and focus exclusively on your plausibly highest expected value goals in rank order (i.e., an attempt to live the most valuable week of your life)
  • Plan Future Upgrades: the phase for systematically investigating each area of your life to discover and operationalize all of your goals
  • Begin Goal Execution: begin to execute your annual goals, incorporating your UP Plans in the rank order of their importance
  • Day 1 Team Meeting: a recap of the day’s progress
  • Day 2 Team Meeting: a recap of the day’s progress
  • Day 3 Team Meeting: a recap of the day’s progress
  • Day 4 Team Meeting: a recap of the day’s progress
  • Day 5 Team Meeting: a recap of the day’s progress
  • Day 6 Team Meeting: a recap of the day’s progress
  • Week 1 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 2 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 3 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 4 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 5 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 6 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 7 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 8 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 9 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 10 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 11 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 12 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 13 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Quarter 1 Team Strategic Review Meeting: a recap of the first quarter’s progress and a deep review of progress on annual goals
  • Week 14 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 15 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 16 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 17 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 18 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 19 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 20 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 21 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 22 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 23 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 24 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 25 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 26 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Quarter 2 Team Strategic Review Meeting: a recap of the second quarter’s progress and a deep review of progress on annual goals
  • Week 27 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 28 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 29 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 30 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 31 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 32 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 33 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 34 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 35 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 36 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 37 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 38 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 39 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Quarter 3 Team Strategic Review Meeting: a recap of the third quarter's progress and a deep review of
    progress on annual goals
  • Week 40 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 41 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 42 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 43 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 44 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 45 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Week 46 Team Meeting: a recap of the week’s progress
  • Quarter 4 Team Strategic Review Meeting: a recap of the fourth quarter’s progress and a deep review of progress on annual goals
  • Conclusion Assessment: the closing set of measures for the things you most care about, including progress on annual and life goals 
  • Final Report: a report summarizing all the successes and failures of UP
  • Next Year’s Annual Goal Setting: a clear, measurable set of ranked goals with milestones and resource allocations drawn from your life goals and deeper understanding of goal attainment
  • 6 Month Assessment: a follow-up on key measures
  • 1 Year Assessment: a follow-up on key measures
  • 2 Year Assessment: a follow-up on key measures
  • 3 Year Assessment: a follow-up on key measures
  • 5 Year Assessment: a follow-up on key measures
  • 10 Year Assessment: a follow-up on key measures
  • 25 Year Assessment: a follow-up on key measures
  • 50 Year Assessment: a follow-up on key measures
  • 100 Year Assessment: a follow-up on key measures

What comes with UP?

UP comes with essentially whatever you need to actually achieve your life goals. We call this your Life Operating System. Here are the most common elements. 

#1

Dedicated Coach

An UP Coach that will serve as your guide, business partner, and closest supporter for months or years

#2

Dedicated Team

A carefully handpicked and trained team of experts and assistants fully dedicated to your goals

#3

UP Protocol

A 1,000+ step process for running your Upgrade Program

#4

Life Calculator

A quantitative model that prioritizes each of your goals by return on investment

#5

Self-Model

A qualitative model of who you are, your values, your purpose, and your strategic path in life

#6

Life Area Plans

450+ pages of step-by-step plans systematically outlining how to upgrade each area of your life

#7

Life Dashboard

A tool to help you to systematically track your life metrics

#8

Goals Dashboard

A tool to identify, set, prioritize, plan, and pursue your goals

#9

Life Assessments

400+ industry-standard assessments to objectively measure your performance

#10

Tools Database

A curated database of 50+ Upgradable and 1,700+ public upgrade tools (one of the largest in the world)

#11

Files Archive

A Drive folder with 1,000+ files ready to use to help you achieve your goals

#12

Optimized Exocortex

A meticulously organized computer, phone, tablet, office, home, and vehicle

#13

Tailored Events

UP Days and other events designed exclusively around your personal needs

#14

1-On-1 Education

A tailored introduction to 500+ of the most valuable self-development concepts