FOMO Fear of Missing Out Implications on Connected Global Society - Guest: Author Patrick McGinnis

TARTLE is on a roll. We’ve had a bunch of great guests over on Tcast of late and today is no exception. This time, Alex and Jason chat with Patrick J. McGinnis. Patrick has done a lot as a venture capitalist, the author of the book, The 10% Entrepreneur, and as a public speaker. What he is most well-known for is coining the term FOMO. For those who don’t follow the latest slang terms flying around the internet, FOMO is short for the Fear of Missing Out. So, how is it that the invention of an internet slang term makes one’s name known to many outside of the investment world? Because FOMO is a legitimate social phenomenon, one that has become more and more significant with the rise of social media. It began back in 2003 when the young Patrick was at Harvard, coincidentally at the same time Zuckerberg was working on Facebook. However, even though social media had yet to really take off, Harvard was full of choices and opportunities that would make one’s head spin. There was so much to do, it was liter