Hello friend,

Or should I say, top o' the mornin'.

Whether or not you’re Irish, wear green tomorrow, and have a happy St. Patrick’s Day.

It's been a wild week. Four RadReaders (!!!) were featured in the Wall Street Journal as Post-Achievement Professionals - a term coined in this newsletter. (Ofc, I'm shirtless 🙊).

I'll also be in Austin this week and organizing a meet-up on Weds 3/20 at the Hi Sign Brewery.

🎧 In this week's podcast, we ask: What did 10 years of fatherhood teach me?​

How to find aliveness (in Excel)

This post's for the "F9 Monkeys."

Now this can be a diminutive term for a first-year analyst.

One who lives in Excel building indestructible financial models.

And for those unfamiliar with F9, it's the special button that runs the model.

You smash F9, and your perfectly fine-tuned (and 50-tabbed) model spits out an answer.

Sell the stock!

IPO the company!

Hedge the commodity risk!

Once that answer pops out, it's a momentary feeling of bliss. All of your efforts harmonize into a work of art.

This moment is all yours.

You feel... Alive!!!!

From our sponsor:

Here are this week's top reads:

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These professionals aren't retired, they just have zero to prove

6 minutes | Wall Street Journal
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I've been passionate about the idea of Post-Achievement Professionals for the past year and it's wild to see the concept on the front page of the WSJ. Reaching Post-Achievement is not about losing your drive or retiring early - it's about releasing professional achievement from the core of your identity. (If you hit the paywall, I summarized it on my Instagram).

→ Read the article​

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What happened to empathy?

5 minutes | The Atlantic
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Think of all the people you used to interact with regularly: straphangers, baristas, coworkers, CVS cashier, bartender and yoga classmates. We now WFH, get our food and Amazon packages delivered to our porch and ride our Peloton. Has a lack of daily humanness ruined our ability to empathize?

→ Read the article​

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How to outsmart AI

1 minute | Sam Altman
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AI is everywhere. As are the fears - both real and imagined - that AI will take over everyone’s job. You can’t control what jobs AI will take. But you can control the skills that AI can’t touch: agency, perception and motivation.

→ Read the tweet​

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LAST WEEK'S MOST READ

• ​Can you teach resilience? (RadReads, 739 clicks)
• ​What I wish someone had told me (Sam Altman, 412 clicks)

And finally, why do these pigeons look so Gangsta?​

With gratitude,

Khe

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