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Here are this week's top reads:

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Should you abandon ambition?

1 minute | Anand Giridharadas' Instagram
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Should you abandon ambition? Anand Giridharadas says "no" in this commencement speech. However, he challenges 2023 grads to be “ambitious about your whole life, about everything, not just your work and your career.” His advice, pick craft over career.

→ Read the post​

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The man who knows what the world's richest people want

12 minutes | Vice
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The ultra-rich need fixers. Whether it’s for a party in San Tropez, romantic matchmaking or the pursuit of happiness - it turns out that money helps for a lot of things. Yet the fixer's key role: “finding a solution to the emptiness the rich can feel inside themselves.”

→ Read the article​

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What we lose when we push our kids to "achieve"

5 minutes | The New York Times
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What’s the difference between achievement and accomplishment? Achievement comes with a reward from the outside — then the immediate need for another one. Accomplishment is self-directed, "an engulfing activity we’ve chosen, whose reward is the sudden rush of fulfillment, the sense of happiness that rises uniquely from absorption in a thing outside ourselves."

→ Read the article​
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The path to happiness is narrow but easy

4 minutes | The Atlantic
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What makes people truly happy? Is it a job well done, a fancy dinner food or chunky investment portfolio? Turns out it’s simply nurturing their relationships and prioritizing love.

→ Read the article​

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Burnout is the echo of self-judgment

4 minutes | More to That
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The capitalist narrative of freedom and achievement has pernicious downstream effects to knowledge workers. If you don’t pay attention, you’re launched on a treadmill of output and productivity — just to prove your worth.

→ Read the post​

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LAST WEEK'S MOST READ

• ​Don’t get the Porsche (RadReads, 1,291 clicks)
• ​The time traveling mistake we make when we procrastinate (Behavioral Scientist, 394 clicks)

And finally, when you get that coveted Goldman Sachs job.

With gratitude,

Khe

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