Having Kids - Paul Graham Highlights:
To most 6 year olds, 2 year olds are just defective 6 year olds
My version of this with a 6-month-old:
The Mistakes Are All Waiting To Be Made
Another parenting reflection essay. My favorite section
this is a totally normal number of problems for them to have. Additionally:
- If your baby goes minutes at a time without blinking, and sometimes never seems to blink at all, that’s normal.
- If your baby randomly stops breathing sometimes, that’s normal.
- If one of your (male) baby’s nipples is much bigger and harder than the other, that’s normal.
- If that nipple, and only that nipple, on your (male) baby, starts producing milk, that’s normal too.
- If people call it “witch’s milk” and claim that “goblins feed on it”, that’s the most normal thing of all.
Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law