The Fear Paradox

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IDEAS
The Fear Paradox

While I’ve mentioned paradoxes related to business, life is rife with them.

One that I’ve been grappling with recently is the paradox of fear.

As humans, we’ll generally always steer clear of things we fear. This is an innate biological trait. But in the modern world, where fears of lions attacking our tribe don’t exist, our fears are less lethal.

The things we fear are signals among the noise. They are the projects we put off, the workouts we skip, and the difficult conversations we struggle to have.

Instead of shying away from them, we should actively move toward our fears. If we don’t, our fears will become limiters on our progress.

So, let’s identify the one thing we fear today and attack it head-on. That’s how we will get better.

RESOURCES
What I Consumed this Week…

…From around the web

FDA Approves Sickle Cell Treatments, including one using CRISPR…

…which allows for precise editing of DNA, enabling it to be transformed.

This is a massive breakthrough in the distribution of biotech looking to cure infectious diseases that has been flying under the radar.

With Neuralink gearing up to start surgery on live patients, DeepMind’s ambition to halve drug discovery with its AI innovations and regulatory tailwinds creating momentum, 2024 could be a boon for biotech.

New material found by AI could reduce lithium use in batteries

The progress in AI has reached a point where it is now discovering new substances and compounds.

It’s hard not to imagine a world where, pretty soon, we’ll be able to tell the AI supercomputer sitting in our smartphone or Rabbit r1, like Sam Altman says, “to discover new physics” or invent new technology out of thin air.

NASA telescope discovers a bizarre half-lava world

The exoplanet is almost the same size as Earth, with a star like our Sun.

Besides the exponential temperatures and lava oceans, this might be the closest we’ve gotten to finding a planet this similar in size to ours.

Add it to the long list of “Earth cousins” that are too far away for us to get to… for now.

…From X

…From YouTube

TOOLS
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THOUGHTS
Quote I’m pondering

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— Luca

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