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I hope you’re having a great start to the weekend. And Happy Mother’s Day to all the Rad Moms.

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🎧 In this week's podcast, we ask: Does money ruin kids?​

The real winner in the Kendrick-Drake beef

Things got nuclear in hip-hop this week.

It was a gift from the heavens for fans.

And for the combatants, it was ugly AF.

In the pursuit of lyrical dominance, they went scorched earth.

Plastic surgery, shoe sizes, ghost writers, cultural appropriation and baby mommas were all fair game.

And I'm not here to opine on the "winner."

(Instead, here's K Dot doing pushups 5 minutes from our house.)

But one person made a savvy decision that we can all learn from.

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Here are this week's top reads:

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Additional new bits of advice I wished I had known earlier

3 minutes | Kevin Kelly
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A birthday “things I wish I knew earlier” list is common. But it hits differently when it’s a gold mine backed by 73 years of optimism. My favorites include: invest in yourself, the myth of multitasking and the power of looking foolish.

→ Read the tweet​

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What phones are doing to reading

7 minutes | The New Yorker

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When is the last time you got lost in a book? It was probably before you tried reading on your phone, where texts, email and social media are constant distractions. Do we have any hope of recapturing the literary magic?

→ Read the article​

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A time we never knew

7 minutes | Freya India
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Starter jackets. Blockbuster. Boyz II Men. The 90s were a vibe. Thanks to anemoia, Gen Zers today feel nostalgia for the real-life experiences that defined my childhood. Given how today everything happens with a phone, can you blame them?

→ Read the post​

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LAST WEEK'S MOST READ

• ​Peaky Blinders saved my life (Radreads, 931 clicks)
• ​Your parents are getting old, here’s what to do (Shaan Puri, 472 clicks)

And finally, what’s the first thing you do when you check into a hotel?​

With gratitude,

Khe

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