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Robo drug dealers are coming to a street corner near you.
Generative AI is rewriting the playbook for drug development. AI is really good at math, big data sets, and iterations. That’s how drugs are made.
By predicting and optimizing molecules, AI can explore endless possibilities before lab trials, cutting costs and time. These AI chemists continuously learn from the experiments and simulations they can perform. And they can work 24x7x365.
How do you feel about using AI-developed drugs?
AI is coming to a hospital or doctor’s office near you in 2025(ish).
Robots will be promoted from surgery assistants to full-on surgeons. The first types of surgeries that are likely to be fully robotic will be prostatectomies, hysterectomies, cholecystectomies, kidney surgeries, and orthopedic replacement surgeries.
Robots don’t get tired. Robots don’t have relationship problems. Robots didn’t miss the training seminar on the latest procedures. Robots aren’t influenced by medical sales reps. Robots don’t have bad days.
Robots use smaller incisions, reduce blood loss, are more precise, always have access to the latest procedures, and have better vision. The result will be decreased recovery times, less complications, less postoperative pain, and an increase in positive outcomes.
All of that probably sits pretty well with the left side of your brain.
But what about the right side? How are you feeling about untethered robots messing around with your bits?
We have an obsession with more. Maybe it’s cultural. Maybe it’s human.
Christmastime encourages the more gene. Costco’s massive popularity is built on the more gene. Why buy one for the price of one if you can buy ten for the price of six? Sales funnels with up and down-sells after you click buy tickles our more gene (and combines it powefully with our FOMO gene).
More is an easy variable to default to when looking to spend one’s money. Therefore, if you’re a product developer or creating a service, more is something to consider.
But there are many axes on which we can aim for better: connection, status, quality, speed, risk, simplicity, fit, function, purpose, identity.
How can you aim for better without having to aim for more?
Should is fraught.
You should do this. You should think that. You should believe us. You should be this. It should be this way.
Should is somebody else’s idea for control. Should is someone or some collective trying to impose their will on you. Not your will. Theirs.
Your will — your perspective — is the most you thing you have. It’s OK for you to think “I should” or “we should.”
Raise the fed flags when you hear “you should.”
In large teams, you and the person standing next to you are likely performing the same job.
In small teams, you and the person standing next to you are likely performing different but complementary jobs.
In tiny teams, you and the person standing next to you might be doing whatever it takes, swapping roles without hesitation.
The person standing next to you defines the strength of your team.
Choose wisely and work intentionally.
The savior was born in a manger. Origins don’t define potential.
The savior was born in a manger. Vulnerability isn’t weakness.
The savior was born in a manger. Hope comes unexpectedly.
The savior was born in a manger. You gotta say “yes.”
The savior was born in a manger. Follow the light.
The savior was born in a manger.
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love and honor one another above yourselves…Share with the Lord’s people who are in need and practice hospitality.
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. Live in harmony with one another…Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
This is how we overcome. This is how get better. This is how we win.
It’s about people.
Utility is currently a culturally underrated human quality.
Form over function. Aesthetics instead of structure. What you stand for rather than what you can do.
However, life is a series of problems. One after the other. Food, water, shelter, and then up Maslow’s pyramid.
If you have a problem, who do you go to? People who can do things. Work is about being able to do things. Living requires being able to do things.
Always be able to do things.
Got a flip phone or — oh, the horror — a house phone on a landline? No problem, OpenAI has your back.
You can call 1-800-CHATGPT and talk to ChatGPT for free for 15 minutes.
I just did it. Asked it a couple of math problems (it was right) and then asked if it could help me get over my sadness (it said it could, but I didn’t know where to go from there). But it doesn’t have access to the internet, nor can it serve real-time information. Therefore, you can’t ask, “What movies are playing tonight at the AMC in Pottstown?”
Well, you can ask (as I did), but it won’t have an answer.
I use ChatGPT to help me write code, generate ideas, and edit stuff I’ve written. I can’t do that through a voice conversation. I get the accessibility, but I’m not sure of the utility at this time. 1-800-CHATGPT is more of a novelty than anything else.
However, it’s another canary in the coal mine of where we’re headed. Siri, Alexa, and Google already have us speaking to our devices, and it’s becoming more and more natural.
The horseless carriage, the Wright Flyer, and the Univac were all initially clunky sideshows. Novelties. Curiosities. Barely worked.
Normal often starts as a clunky sideshow that barely works.
You can’t travel even close to the speed of light.
At least not with conventional and practical travel methods as we know them today. First, it would take a couple of years to accelerate at a rate that your body could handle it. We don’t have a propulsion system or fuel source that could do it. Second, time dilation would change your timeline with respect to the timeline around you. We’re not really sure how that would affect a human. Third, you’d be practically blind from the visual distortion due to the Doppler effect. And finally, you’d likely explode due to an unintended collision with a tiny speck of dust.
So, if you need to travel at the speed of light, you have the following options:
Innovation isn’t always about going faster. It’s also about finding alternative ways to get where you need to be.
