Rodrigo Fonseca

🇲🇽 MD | IM Resident @mayoclinic

[Santiago Arau @Santiago_Arau]

Equinoccio de primavera 2024 en Ciudad de México.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In 1997, at the age of 27, Matt Damon won his first Academy Award for Best Screenplay ("Good Will Hunting").

After Damon won the Oscar, he went home, sat down on his sofa, & looked at the award.

As he looked at it, he was suddenly overwhelmed by a heartbreaking thought.

"Imagine chasing that, and not getting it, and getting it finally in your 80s or your 90s with all of life behind you and realizing what an unbelievable waste of your life...It can't fill you up. If that's a hole that you have, that won't fill it."

"My heart broke," Damon said. "I imagined another one of me [not getting that award until I was] an old man, and going like, 'oh my god. where did my life go? What have I done?' And then it's over."

Takeaway 1:

Many successful, rich, famous, etc. people talk about chasing success, money, fame, etc., getting it, and realizing that it didn't feel like they thought it would. That it didn't, as Damon said, fill the hole they had.

One of my favorite analogies for this pattern comes from Sam Hinkie.

Hinkie was asked about what he's learned from reading Robert Caro's books—about some very successful, rich, famous, etc. people.

"I think of it like the Pacific Salmon," Hinkie said. "They spend their whole life making this journey upstream to spawn in this one spot. And as soon as they do, they die. That's largely what Caro shows you."

Takeaway 2:

Before he was a big-time comedian, Hasan Minhaj was asked if he thought he was going to become a big-time comedian.

“I don’t like that question,” he said. “I fundamentally don’t like that question.”

Because that question implies that he is only doing comedy as a means to some end (success, money, fame, etc.).

“No, no, no,” he said, “The set I get to do tonight at 7:20 PM is the win. I get to do comedy—I won. It being predicated on doing X or being bigger than Y—no, no, no. To me, it’s always just been about the work."

"The work is the win," as Ryan Holiday once told me.

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"It's such a gift to be able to [do] something and to love it for the sake of it...I see people with talent, with all those things. But the one thing they don't have is just that love for doing it for the sake of it...So if there's anything, just find joy in what you do for the sake of it." — Rodney Mullen

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[Blood Cancer Journal @BloodCancerJnl]

Next generation sequencing minimal residual disease (MRD) and PET scan in myeloma patients. ⁦@Rfonsi1⁩ ⁦@akeithstewart⁩ ⁦@jmikhaelmd⁩ ⁦@MayoMyeloma⁩ #OpenAccess https://t.co/Tl8pk0Gu2X

[Rafael Fonseca MD 🦔🇺🇸🏜🇲🇽 @Rfonsi1]

Great work by everyone involved! I am proud of this paper and what it means to patients. What better day to have it published than today, and more so as I just received 3 emails with results of 3 patients who have sustained MRD negativity @ 10^-6.
#mmsm #youhavetofinishthejob

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The movement of the tectonic plates along the fault captured by satellites at Nurdağı, Turkey, following the 6-7 February earthquakes. The relative shift is around 3-4 meters

[📷Andreas Schafer, Maxar Technologies]

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Last night I captured an incredibly difficult shot: ISS transiting the moon, while gently kissing Tycho crater as it flies by at 5 miles per second. That crater is 53 miles wide, so while the station almost looks like it's orbiting the moon it's actually 1000x closer to us.

[Rodrigo Fonseca @rofonsecap]

🤯🤯🤯

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Read a great Reddit thread putting historical dates in perspective.

Here are 8 gems.

1/ The moon landing was only 66 years after the Wright Brothers first flight (1903-1969). Within a lifetime, humans went from having limited flight tech to travelling ~239k miles from Earth.

[Rodrigo Fonseca @rofonsecap]

@Rfonsi1 Thank you!!

[Rodrigo Fonseca @rofonsecap]

@Guaalee Tranquilo viejo

[Rodrigo Fonseca @rofonsecap]

@joaquinlife Might be Flu…

[Mark Lewis, MD, FASCO @marklewismd]

Point: “tHeY’rE hIdInG tHe CuRe”
Counterpoint:

[Combat Learjet @Combat_learjet]

INCREDIBLE imagines of the @spacex launch from a C-17 cockpit over the Atlantic Ocean. Thank you for the pictures @mavliocca

[Latinometrics @LatamData]

(1/9) Gordon Ramsay and Martha Stewart are being outperformed by Doña Angela, a grandma from rural Mexico and her daughter’s phone camera.

[Mind Essentials @Mind_Essentials]

15 Powerful Visuals About Psychology & Life

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[PabloLeon @Pablo_LeonS]

Diego necesita su 3er transplante de riñon.
Porfavor, ayudenme con un RT. Necesitamos toda la ayuda posible.

@GarciaPosti @Canelo @lopezdoriga

https://t.co/iWjWPvkrLP

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Why Beauty Matters

(and how it has been destroyed by "usability")

A short thread...

[Rodrigo Fonseca @rofonsecap]

@nacholabbe @UberEats_mex Que gusto 👍🏻 seguimos al pendiente

[Rodrigo Fonseca @rofonsecap]

Plot twist.