5 Money Milestones and the Lie Each One Tells
About this episode
Tyler Gardner explores the emptiness of financial milestones and what literature reveals about money and ambition.
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Host: Tyler Gardner
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Thrive Market, Gelt, Anthropic, Facet
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Books & works: C.P. Cavafy, Samuel Johnson, Kazuo Ishiguro, David Foster Wallace
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