TMRW/TDY
Ideas from TMRW to enhance your TDY
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Hey Reader,
⏀The Source of Your Discontent– Graham Weaver, Stanford business lecturer and Alpine Investor, posted what may be the best 60 seconds online you’ll ever come across. And it’s on the nature of suffering. The answer is not what you might expect.
💡What you resists persists. Leaning into discomfort is the path through it.
⏀Dopamine Culture – Much has been written about the cheap thrills in our society leading to a surge in easily accessible dopamine – and the attendant dopamine “fasts” to counter-act this trend. It comes at a time of rises in “deaths of despair” where meaning is at an all time low and junk pleasure is a widely available substitute. In a fascinating article on addiction that has relevance for all of us, Dana Smith makes a compelling argument for why conventional wisdom is wrong.
💡The answer to the overabundance of sex, substances,& screens is MORE pleasure, but from community, purpose and connection.
⏀ Quote I’m pondering – “Some I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” – Mary Oliver
💡You have unopened treasures in your life. But you must expose yourself to the pain to find the gift underneath
⏀ Golden Era of Medicine – A great NYT article outlining how decades of investment into bio-medicine is finally bearing fruit. We are not at the point of wholly eliminating cancer there are transformative breakthroughs that should give us all hope.
“It’s stunning,” says the immunologist Barney Graham, the former deputy director of the Vaccine Research Center and a central figure in the development of mRNA vaccines, who has lately been writing about a “new era for vaccinology.” “You cannot imagine what you’re going to see over the next 30 years. The pace of advancement is in an exponential phase right now.”
💡Innovation takes a looong time in medicine but things are looking very hopeful now: mRNA (vaccines), GL1P agents (obesity/addiction), Crispr (genetic conditions), Immunotherapy (cancer). It’s up to us ensure they are equitably distributed
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