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You’re a dad, so you know a lot. You’ve been alive a while. You’ve read a thing or…
As we’ve talked about before (see our other emails about this if you missed them!), F Scott Fitzgerald…
Brett Favre had a tough father. He never let his kids have it easy. He pushed them. He…
While there are certainly people out there for whom the pandemic or our political environment have brought out…
What is expected of you will change with time. When they were tiny, you needed to do everything…
There is a beautiful line in the haunting novel The Bear, which is about a man and his…
Of course, you’re busy. You have work. You have your spouse. You have your kids. You have all…
When Robert Lovett, the future State Department official and Secretary of Defense, was a kid, it happened that…
A couple weeks ago, we talked about the sobering exercise of trying to observe other people getting upset or losing their temper at their kids….
We’ve talked before about David Epstein’s wonderful book Range, which advises against premature specialization—in athletes, in kids, in intellectual development. It tends to be better,…
As we’ve written about before, Ted Williams was not a good father. He was a great baseball player who totally neglected the responsibilities of being…
You’ve told them a million times. You told them why they need to study before their test, and they didn’t and they came home with…
Ted Williams was not a good father—at least not for most of his life. He was a great baseball player, but for a long time,…
The great physicist Richard Feynman had a father who instilled his brilliant son with an interesting perspective about the world. Sitting down, he would lay…
Kids are crazy, right? When they’re hungry, they are rude and difficult to manage. They are demanding and seem incapable, most of the time, of…
Who among us is not insecure? We look around and see people who make more money. Who have bigger houses. Who have accomplished more than…
One of the unusual side effects of our modern lives is how siloed work is for most people. “Work” is a place you drive to…
We live in a world awash with ego. We see it every day. We can see the ego of our boss, and how it has…
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