Patrick is a venture capitalist and the author of Fear of Missing Out: Practical Decision-Making in a World of Overwhelming Choice and the host of the hit podcast FOMO Sapiens. Patrick coined the ...

This term for “the fear of missing out” even made it into dictionaries ... making a decision,” author and venture capitalist Patrick McGinnis told HuffPost. “This specifically refers ...

Forget “fear ... missing out.” The latest anxiety-inducing trend is “FOBO” — or “fear of a better option.” In other words, ...

No, we meant FOBO. We all are aware of FOMO, the fear of missing out. So what’s FOBO? An evil cousin of FOMO, indeed. Venture capitalist and author Patrick James McGinnis, who coined the word ...