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Why does everyone want to raise kids with their friends in a group house but no one does it?
After 5 years living with my housemates, I had a baby.
Nov 21, 2025
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Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time
Dec 13, 2025
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Maybe I shouldn't be validating my kids so much
Dec 22, 2025
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Lessons from nine years of relationship therapy
Nov 9, 2025
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Can we do some due process please?
I generally try to avoid thinking about politics because I don’t think I can have much impact on it.
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Minivans are precise tools for parenting
Before I had kids I thought minivans were low status.
Jan 5
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Imperfect self-expression, not self-sacrifice
Six years ago, I became wary of the ambition in San Francisco.
Dec 29, 2025
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Maybe I shouldn't be validating my kids so much
I became a parent wanting to do things differently than how I was raised, but something isn’t working about my approach.
Dec 22, 2025
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Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time
The worst toy is one with many pieces that my kids dump on the ground and then play with for only 2 minutes.
Dec 13, 2025
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A review of the Secular Solstice 2025
Around 500 people gathered in Berkeley last night for the Secular Solstice, a ritual event founded by Ray Arnold because he cared about his rationalist…
Dec 8, 2025
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I spared my 3-year-old trauma with a technique my CEO taught me
A few days ago, my son fell on his front tooth, and the dentist told us that it was so damaged that we needed to extract it as soon as possible.
Dec 8, 2025
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