Posted on 14th Nov, 2025

I have been considering closing myself in order to work on hard problems can potentially cannot be solved within a single lifetime, or problems that can benefit a lot if the context was carried over multiple generations.

This includes problems such as construction of mega space stations such as dyson sphere, terra forming planets, RnD on faster than lightspeed engines, visiting planets outside the solar system, fusion powered rocket engines, political transformation of a country, etc.

The end goal of closing yourself is to replace yourself as the CEO of your company when you are too old to carry on the work. The plan would be to get the clone to join your company when it’s around 20 years old, and slowly hand over the reigns over a 20/30 year period.

Cloning not only helps founders, it also can enables VC’s to take ultra long term bets, it enables political leaders to think more long term etc.

Note: There have been several ideas proposed in SciFi shows around this issue. Examples are the concept of “Stack and Sleeve” in Altered Carbon. Intermittant cryo sleeps where the founders wakes up for 6 months every 7 years (https://www.story.inc/) , conciousness transfer from one body to another (Black Mirror). However none of these methods are even remotely possible using present day technology.

Cloning is the only one that can be achieved in present times.

This article is a discussion on how an individual can plan to clone themselves and what are the high level things to think about. This article only discusses the managerial side of raising a clone. The legality and ethical side of doing this has not been discussed in this post.

Here, we assume that the goals, ambition, personality and skills of the child are primary dependant on the DNA.

Challenges -

There are 3 stages to this -

Pre-birth (Womb)

The very first step is to be have a baby conceieved with your exact same DNA. This step involves making a human embreyo using your DNA. Need to do more research but I believe this is not too hard using modern stem cell technology or IVF.