@kevinroose 1. Prefer professional readers for fiction. Autobiographies read by author are fun. Non fiction, serious works read by author are excellent.
2. No extraneous noise or music. W/ fiction, I like different voices to help me keep up w/ characters.
3. I listen at 1.0 usually.
@tuuu28283 A fun thing to watch in professional football is the celebration just after a team scores a touchdown. Some teams have group dances or stunts.
@tuuu28283 For sports fans, Shohei Ohtani is a legend.
The popular sports are American football (NFL), baseball, basketball, and (in the northern states) ice hockey. Soccer (known as futbol outside the USA) is increasing in popularity but is still minor compared to other countries.
@elonmusk@Tesla@Tesla_AI FSD is the lagniappe in my life that is a delight every time. I enjoy seeing how it works and decides. So far, it can do EVERYTHING except parking decks.
You have to earn respect from your child. That happens by being respectable consistently through the years.
If they dont respect you (this is not the same as fear you,) by the time they are 8, their teen years will be the worst hell you ever lived through.
How to be respectable?
Have a healthy marriage. Be fair and consistent with discipline. Don't let the child divide and conquer the parents. Take him with you when you go to the hardware store or car dealership so he can see how adult men relate to other adults. Let him make mistakes without your judgment and then help him learn from them. Teach him things like how to winterize the garden hose or wash the car. When he is learning, expect that he won't get it on the first pass. The object of teaching him how to wash the car is not to efficiently accomplish the task. Let him tell you his troubles without immediately recommending the fix. Don't try to reason with him as if he were a little adult. Don't use him for emotional rescue. Don't let him manipulate you.
Until he is 10 to 11, he will think you hung the moon. After that, your coolness vanishes, and he will not seek out time with you because he prefers his friends.
Only you can teach him how to have healthy relationships and how to deal with conflict in a healthy way. You are teaching him how to treat women by the way you treat your wife.
The three C's of parenting: age 0-10 control. Age 11-21 coach. Age 21 counsel if asked.
@Geiger_Capital Detroit declined bc white executives of Big Auto were asleep at the switch and ceded 75% market share to imports due to their arrogance.
Have him create a story of how characters interact...that could eventually be a videogame. Have him create one compelling distinction vs. Pokemon so that Pokemon fans would be intrigued to try it...something like when two characters pair up, They can shape-shift into a different character.
@BoringBiz_ True that ChatGPT created an escape hatch for Google's antitrust case. However. Google helped the world ae the value of their data empire by releasing Gemini 3 Flash this month. Also, they created the ASIC TPU. horning in on NVIDIA's turf.