I Couldn't Think My Way Out

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This past weekend, I had the honor of reading my favorite Bible passages at my friend Mercedes's wedding in Mexico City: Philippians 4:4–9. In an 100-year-old church in Roma Norte, I heard my voice boom throughout the high, vaulted ceilings as I read:

I’ve loved this passage since high school, and I even had it hanging in my childhood bedroom. Mercedes and I bonded over it early in our friendship, and when she asked me to read it, she said, “Will you read the passage at our wedding – you know the one.” I immediately knew and said yes.

Have no anxiety at all.

Harder than it sounds!

Anxiety is addictive. It’s addictive because it feeds itself:

• I worry…

• Then time passes as I worry…

• The problem hasn’t gone away, so then I worry more…

Anxiety ensures the worrier inside of you gets to keep worrying. She seems productive keeping herself busy with worries!

But staying in a constant state of worry isn’t productive. It’s a trap.

There’s a lot of resistance and fear to taking action when you’re worrying. You think you can think your way out of it, but you can’t.

So the only way to quiet the worrier inside of you is to get her to take action. Taking action usually requires a bit of courage.

And I’ve found the best way to get her to get courage is through prayer. You can think of prayer as a request.

So, pray. Make your request known to God, the Universe, your friends–those who will help you gain the courage to defeat worry.

Frontier Tech Roundup — SheFi Edition 🏇

• Jensen Huang admitted to an affair after reports linked a business executive close to him to suspected Chinese espionage. The story began publicly in October 2025, when The New York Times reported on Megaspeed, a Singapore-based Nvidia customer under investigation for potentially helping China obtain restricted AI chips. That reporting also highlighted Jensen’s connections to Alice Huang, an executive associated with the company.

  This October, the Times reported that U.S. intelligence had been surveilling Alice and believed she was passing information to Beijing. Subsequent reporting described an intelligence assessment identifying their relationship as romantic. Nvidia had characterized their meetings as ordinary customer interactions. On November 8, Jensen acknowledged the intimate relationship to Nvidia’s board and publicly apologized for being unfaithful to his wife.

  The board is now investigating whether he was targeted by foreign intelligence. China denies the spying allegations, and the underlying intelligence evidence hasn’t been made public. Nvidia says it has no reason to believe sensitive information was compromised.

  I’m disappointed by the affair and surprised Jensen wasn’t more careful, given what’s at stake. If the espionage allegations are true, the consequences could extend to America’s lead in AI and our national security.

  New York Times reporting · Reporting timeline · Nvidia board statement

• The Democratic election sweep helped trigger a $2.5 trillion Nasdaq selloff just as Anthropic prepares to go public. Last week, we talked about growing opposition to AI data centers. On November 5, those concerns hit markets: the Nasdaq Composite fell 5.5%, while the larger companies in the Nasdaq 100 lost $2.5 trillion in value. Investors were already worried about financing and returns on AI spending. Potential delays to new data centers added to concerns about how quickly AI companies could expand.

  Anthropic’s latest filing proposes an IPO price of $70 to $78 a share. Investors now have to judge its growth against the cost of building the infrastructure that growth requires. A model can improve quickly. Getting permission to build the data center it needs can take much longer.

  Reuters on the selloff

• Businesses can now claim a profile in ChatGPT and see how people discover them. OpenAI launched Businesses in ChatGPT in beta on November 10. Eligible companies can verify their business, update their information, and see aggregated insights such as mentions and website clicks. Some U.S. ecommerce and online service businesses can also create an agent that answers questions about their offerings. Those conversations are labeled and separate from ChatGPT’s independent answers. OpenAI says businesses won’t receive users’ conversations. If you run a business, check whether you’re eligible to claim yours. As more people ask AI where to shop or which service to use, keeping your business information accurate inside these tools becomes part of being discoverable.

• Google is buying Spirit Airlines’ internal business data to train AI, and unions have secured stronger privacy protections. The proposed $10 million deal includes workplace emails and other business records from the bankrupt airline. Google agreed to additional safeguards this week, including independent review and stronger removal of identifying information. Sensitive employee records will be excluded, and passenger personal information was already removed from the deal. Court approval is still pending. Your workplace messages can become an asset someone sells after the company closes. I doubt most people think about that when they send a message to a coworker.

• Anthropic says its new Claude model designed working electronic devices from a short written prompt. In a test with hardware company Diode, Claude Fable 5.2 designed custom circuit boards and wrote the software for devices including a speakerphone and a handheld virtual pet. It also designed their enclosures and guided engineers through testing. Humans manufactured and assembled the hardware. Anthropic says all three prototypes worked without electrical modifications. These are company-reported results from early prototypes. But the process is striking: an idea described in a paragraph became a design that people could manufacture. I’m interested in how this could help someone test a hardware idea before they have the money to hire an engineering team.

• A planned New York Stock Exchange-affiliated platform will use Avalanche technology to settle tokenized stock trades. Ava Labs announced the selection on November 9. The platform is designed for round-the-clock trading and settlement, meaning the actual exchange of shares and payment. It still needs regulatory approval. It will use dedicated infrastructure with controls over who can participate, so this doesn’t mean anyone can connect a crypto wallet and start trading NYSE stocks. The potential benefit is that stock ownership and payment could transfer together, with fewer delays between making a trade and completing it. Blockchain is moving deeper into the systems that traditional markets run on.

• Amazon announced a $250 Ring camera that flies around inside your home. The Ring Drone Cam maps your space and flies to saved locations so you can investigate an alert beyond the view of a fixed camera. Amazon says it will ship January 27, pending FCC authorization. Ring also announced a $1,000 wheeled security robot for businesses, scheduled to ship in December. The drone’s camera switches off when docked, and Amazon says both products include recording indicators and encryption. I’d want to understand exactly when it can launch and who can access the footage before putting a flying camera in my home.

• A single injection lowered both bad cholesterol and triglycerides in a small, early-stage trial. Cleveland Clinic researchers presented results from a study of 31 participants testing a medicine that turns down two genes involved in how the liver manages blood fats. Depending on the dose, LDL cholesterol fell by 26% to 65%, and triglycerides fell by 56% to 78%. The highest dose caused more side effects. This was a first-in-human trial funded by the drug’s developer, and researchers still need to establish long-term safety and whether it prevents heart attacks or strokes. The possibility is one treatment addressing two problems that can currently require several medications.

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