realising viscerally existentially wholeheartedly that continuously checking your phone will disrupt your capacity to deep-work and take anything seriously and that will rob you of your essence as a human being and keep you a shell of what you could’ve turned out to be.
This becomes so painfully obvious when you have children. There's only 12 weeks of spring I'll get to experience with my two year old. There will be more springs in our lives, but he's not gonna be the same kid anymore 🥲
it’s on slack bro. it’s in the drive. i just put it in the notion bro i literally sent it to you on teams. did you check the airtable bro? it’s in the box bro. it’s single sign on, it’s on okta bro. no you need the yubikey. check your deel bro, it’s on gusto. check outlook bro
i can't believe we all got addicted to our phones and filled the internet with terabytes of data and then had a massive global pandemic forcing every system on earth to go digital-remote-compatible and then got ai takeoff like five seconds later. the ordering is just immaculate
sipping wine is actually kinda boring and changing diapers isn’t a big deal and is actually kinda sweet bc sometimes your baby will start cooing and smiling and kicking his ridiculous fat legs around nonstop. you can also choose to do this in italy, babies are extremely portable.
It’s very important that you understand what dopamine addiction looks like. It’ll rob you of every little joy that life has to offer. He didn’t want to be enjoying his coffee in peace, he wanted to be enjoying his coffee with his phone, be honest.
One thing that has been striking is how nearly every highly-educated white-collar-job parent of a young child I know is raising their kid with wooden blocks and no screens. Then I go out in the world and see so many little kids (like toddlers in strollers) on phones and tablets. I think we’re going to see absolutely astounding growth in already astounding inequality.
I will never understand why so many people think parenthood means suburbia, little league practise and the end of brunches and lie ins.
You can raise your kids however you want. If you want late morning breakfasts and art gallery strolls, you can just do that.
there was an old Kanye tweet from about a decade ago where he basically said that he turned his life around by highlighting positive words in the dictionary, or something along those lines.
hopefully someone can find and share it below
It cannot be a coincidence that Abracadabra means - 'as I speak, so I create'
Idk about you but every morning my son wakes up next to me and we just cuddle and talk until he’s ready to get out of bed. Sometimes it’s 2 minutes, sometimes it’s 15 minutes. I just have the best mornings. No rushing out to go to day care or child care. No rushing so I can get to work on time. It’s just magical.