How Long Have I Got Left?
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How Long Have I Got Left?
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#2"And then my health began to improve, thanks to a pill that targets a specific genetic mutation tied to my cancer."
Isn't tailoring drugs to specific mutations the next big revolution in medicine that we've been waiting for? Steve Jobs had his DNA sequenced to help fight his cancer.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/21/steve_jobs_had_his...
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#3"And then my health began to improve, thanks to a pill that targets a specific genetic mutation tied to my cancer." Isn't tailoring drugs to specific mutations the next big revolution in medicine that we've been waiting for? Steve Jobs had his DNA sequenced to help fight his cancer. http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/21/steve_jobs_had_his...
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#4"I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed both nothing and everything. Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when."
Within this passage lies the meaning of life.
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#5Nicely written. Why is it that we only look for what is important to us when we realize that we don't have long to live? Don't people realize that this is true starting the day you're born?
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#6"And then my health began to improve, thanks to a pill that targets a specific genetic mutation tied to my cancer." Isn't tailoring drugs to specific mutations the next big revolution in medicine that we've been waiting for? Steve Jobs had his DNA sequenced to help fight his cancer. http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/21/steve_jobs_had_his...
Yes, I am friends with Dr. Mark Nelson at University of Arizona and he is doing a startup in that area. http://pathology.arizona.edu/faculty/mark-nelson-phd
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#7"And then my health began to improve, thanks to a pill that targets a specific genetic mutation tied to my cancer." Isn't tailoring drugs to specific mutations the next big revolution in medicine that we've been waiting for? Steve Jobs had his DNA sequenced to help fight his cancer. http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/21/steve_jobs_had_his...
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#8Nicely written. Why is it that we only look for what is important to us when we realize that we don't have long to live? Don't people realize that this is true starting the day you're born?
Because there's a lot of "unimportant" stuff necessary to sustain the important stuff.
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#9"I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed both nothing and everything. Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when." Within this passage lies the meaning of life.
The logical person inside of me wants to say that there is no meaning to life. But of course, that is not how I feel.
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#10Nicely written. Why is it that we only look for what is important to us when we realize that we don't have long to live? Don't people realize that this is true starting the day you're born?
Because there's a lot of "unimportant" stuff necessary to sustain the important stuff.
I think there is a lot true in that. It took me a good few years to get to the point of being able to focus on what is important for me. But, it do not think that the journey was wasted. Indeed it feels like everything/most what I have done up until now has put me in the position to do what is important, much more effectively and with some actual impact.
I learn slowly, so it took a while, but the journey is what was important in the end not the goal. So now I look at every step along the way and make sure it is both useful to my surrounding world, fun and gives me experience to do something bigger, better, funner for the next step. It probably sounds like a cliche, but it is nevertheless true for me.