When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable

Hello and welcome to how I built this lab. I'm Guy Rise. So right now it's the beginning of a show and you're probably listening pretty actively, at least I hope you are. But the reality is that sometimes our attention drifts. So what if right before you reach that point?

Your headphones or your earbuds triggered a small audible tone that basically told you you're starting to lose focus. Well that's where today's guest comes in. Ramses Alcade is the co-founder and CEO of the non-invasive wearable tech company Nurable. Nurable's main product is N10. It's a set of headphones that adapt to your natural working rhythms to help prevent burnout. Nurable actually began in 2015 when Ramses was getting his PhD in neuroscience at the University of Michigan, but his interest in technology goes back much further.

I came from Mexico, I was born in Mexico and uh came to the United States when I was five. And I remember that I was so into computers. Uh, my parents bought me one that was basically a computer that was a a throw away computer by some large company. And I remember taking it apart and being just so fascinated by it that I wanted to fix other people's computers and so I would post up signs in my neighborhood where I would b basically do like computer repair for people for like twenty dollars an hour. And that was great money back when I was a kid. Like, especially when you're like

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