Hi friend,

We're back in LA and wanted to extend a huge welcome to all our new subscribers from this recent CNBC profile.

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🎧 This week's podcast episode explores if friendship as hard as we think?​

An exercise to face your fears

There once was young warrior who had to battle fear.

She was nervous. Fear was aggressive and mighty.

“How can I defeat you?” she asked.

Fear replied:

Here are this week's top reads:

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Our economy thrives on bad feelings

9 minutes | The New York Times
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While we’re familiar with economic insecurity, how do we reckon with the existential insecurity that is "indelible to being human?" This insecurity transcends economic stature and isn’t fixed by boosting our 401ks or buying a home. So how does one deal with “the dysphoria of feeling you don’t have enough, even when you objectively have a lot?”

→ Read the article​

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30 life hacks I know at 30 that I wish I knew at 20

4 minutes | Instagram
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A quirky but delightful listicle on how to spend your money, protecting your time and how to regulate your internal (negative) chatter.

→ Read the post​

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A suburban slumber

5 minutes | Amble
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I’m not going to sit here and tell you that home ownership consumes a ton of mind space. But I’d never heard the argument that renters invest the “cognitive savings” in into other forms of creativity, capital and entrepreneurship. (Empirically, it’s probably why so many entrepreneurs are renters.)

→ Read the post​

Below the Fold
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LAST WEEK'S MOST READ

• ​The paradox of the “perfect life” (RadReads, 1,280 clicks)
• ​The hidden value of time (The New York Times, 493 clicks)

And finally, how to make $1,000,000 online.

With gratitude,

Khe

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