
Nucleate Podcast Doing Hard Things with Good People | Alexander Titus, National Biotech Commissioner
Time Stamps
[00:00] Titus’s ethos of doing hard things with good people
[00:43] Introduction to the Nucleate Podcast and Alexander Titus
[01:22] Titus discusses his post-college pivot and solo travel through Central America
[04:47] How travel philosophy maps to Titus’s career
[05:56] Titus discusses his experience living in a casino and learning risk management via blackjack
[12:39] Resilience and irreversible mistakes
[17:12] Titus discusses his non-linear career path
[20:57] Tackling hard problems: humility, small wins and amplifying others
[27:05] National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) & $15B roadmap
[30:53] Balancing policy and industry roles
[34:42] The under-invested pillar of bio-literacy
[37:50] Sci-fi novel Synthetic Eden and using fiction as a bio-ethics tool
[46:36] AI, biotech risk and data-driven governance
[49:04] Titus’s insights into AI in therapeutics, especially its current reality versus hype
[59:39] Rapid-fire Q&A: name, favorite places, book recommendations
