Hi friend,

Happy first day of March!

This flu has me laid out. I've barely left my house since last Wednesday, but I think I'm on the mend.

This week, my dear friend (and long-time RadReader) Anne-Laure Le Cunff is releasing her debut book: Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World.

Anne-Laure is an ex-Googler, neuroscientist, community builder and author.

She is a true polymath and embodies the skills and mindsets needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

Here are this week's top reads:

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Option rot

4 minutes | Terrain

Are you accidentally hurting your potential by refusing to pick something and do it? Our culture celebrates endless options — optionality. But what if too much optionality just hurts us? While you're busy keeping doors open, opportunities — your fat pitches — are quietly rotting.

→ Read the article​

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Gen Z and the end of predictable progress

15 minutes | Kyla Scanlon

This article is about much than Gen Z. It’s about institutions, technological change and the impact on risk taking. In a world where few industries will be untouched by AI, what will happen to credentialing, purchasing power and safety nets?

→ Read the article​

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Not a Coder? With AI, Just Having an Idea Can Be Enough

5 minutes | NYTimes

I’ve been waiting to see how long it would take for this story to show up in a major publication. 2 months. AI-coding for non-engineers (aka Vibecoding) has absolutely consumed me. The potential of building software simply with prompts is incredible — the potential of outcomes vast. Now it’s still early days, but it’s wild to think that this is the worst this technology will ever be. (Keep reading to try out my latest project.)

→ Read the article​

Stories from my life

Now that my new website is up-and-running, I'm able to create some more interactive components to help our community.

On the top of my list: helping people get clarity on buying versus renting.

I've long held the view that prospective buyers take too narrow of a view when they make this massive decision.

They focus on the finances, which obviously, are tremendously important.

But they overlook their own preferences.

These preferences that are of equal importance, but much harder to suss out.

So I built an interactive tool to help you make a better decision.

After you play with the tool, reply to this email with your score and what you thought your score would be.

(This site was built entirely from skills I picked up in the Build Your Own Apps course. Full disclosure: I'm an affiliate.)

This Week on The Examined Life Podcast

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This week's episode: What’s next after a brain tumor?​

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LAST WEEK'S MOST READ

• ​"F*** You Money" is useless without the "F*** You” (The Way of Work, 1,064 clicks)
• ​Are 401(k)s becoming obsolete? (Of Dollars And Data, 572 clicks)

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And finally, when an AI edit goes awry (scroll the entire thread).

With gratitude,

Khe

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