Dan Southworth's message for today's stream.

I apologize in advance if this is oversharing, guys. I also don't want to seem like I'm selling something, so I won't name specifics.

I work in cancer research. We should be able to start our first clinical trial with a new treatment for late stage treatment-failed cancer by end of year. It's what I've been working non-stop for the last 4 years on.

During these 4 years, several personal friends have died of cancer. I attended funerals. I saw families get torn apart by the disease and I saw loved ones come together because of the disease. In July 2015, Satoru Iwata died of a rare stomach cancer. Now Chris Taylor is gone too.

Memories of these people are burned into my brain. Nintendo and DMC have been staples of my growing up, and I desperately wish my company were a couple years more mature than it is right now.

The work I do has taken over every aspect of my life. I moved away from a corporate job to this biotech startup. I moved across the country in a van full of my stuff to do the work. Later, I would give up my apartment to become a nomad and couch surf and raise money to pay for the clinical trial. I can count at least half a dozen times over the last year alone when I wanted to give up. Why bother? It's hard sleeping in a different bed every week, if you're lucky enough to get a bed to sleep on.

And every time I get fed up, overworked, sleep deprived, frustrated, etc., I keep coming back to the same people in my brain. Their deaths. Their families.

I learned over the years I'm not allowed to complain. Whatever my annoyances are with my job pale in comparison to what the families go through. So the only thing I can do now is keep going.

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