Who Moved My Cheese?
Hello!
I'm currently on the train from Bristol to Edinburgh for a week working alongside researchers from the University. I've been working a lot in the past two weeks on the direction of our venture builder, investment group, and software company. I'm pulled in a lot of directions, some want to double down, some want to expand, some to simplify others to diversify. By accident, I read the right book this week.
The book I read this week
Who Moved My Cheese? (amazon link) by Dr Spencer Johnson - I always like lessons in the form of parables because they are easy to explain and spread and everyone takes away something uniquely useful to their personal situation. "Who Moved My Cheese?" describes 4 characters in pursuit of their cheese, and how their personalities steer their responses to change or appetite for change. This is a quick read (~1hour) but it helps you to step back and look at the bigger picture and yourself. I'm going to start recommending it to a lot of people.
This week's video
Future Medicine Will Be Radically Different (It will have nanorobots) - I had the chance to interview Dr Joe Healey, CEO of NanoSyrinx a company designing medicine carrying virus-like particles using bacteria that assemble the dna blue prints into self directing nanobots. That was a lot of buzzwords. Amazing technology and something that feels much more of a "when" than an "if". It makes use of things biology already does well to deliver the next generation of therapeutics.
3 things I found interesting
How A Piano Cord can Silence Nightmares - Positive reinforcement training seems to work even when patients are asleep
Asteroid Psyche - NASA is inching closer to running a space mining mission to asteroid made of gold. Mission launch is scheduled for October 10th, 2023.
First Ever Lab Grown Blood Cells Given To Patients - (A local story out of Bristol, UK) Potentially a huge leap forward for people with blood based afflictions or needing regular transfusions
What’s good to do in Edinburgh? I have some time later in the week, I’ll try and reconnect with my Scottish roots.
Have a great week!
All the best,
Ben