It never goes away, you just get better at observing it. With repeated exposure we learn that its pot odds to say yes to that presentation, yes to that new responsibility, yes to the snake in the grass.

Thank you to the monkey brain, but I’ve been here before, I will proceed.

In the same way that humans are poor with large numbers, we undervalue the expected ROI when deciding to share information.

Write that blog post, update that wiki, schedule that internal training session.

There is someone out there, present or future, who will find themselves on your path, it just seems improbable in this moment. It only needs one person to get value, to have made it worthwhile.