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one time as a kid, my dad told me about some old research he'd read
he said, maybe asian kids are better at math because they just try 50% longer
@melissa
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@melissa
@melissa
internet anthropologist / hacker larp / n=1 experiments in parenting from first principles
- > i have a dude friend, he's 28ish and dating a girl > she goes to pilates every morning at 6am > i've been yelling at him to marry her since date one > he keeps wanting further assessment from me > she does pilates every day at 6am are you retarded
- Replying to @melissathe girl is hot, with grit and discipline to make a 6am class what else are you selecting for
- i just got this odd little book, it's roughly the size of a passport this photographer went around calling the biggest european companies, asking to show up at their office and shoot their boardroom this is unilever in 1993
- i agree with @yacineMTB: "fairness does not exist in marriage" the media ruined marriages by programming women to think they should be ‘fair’ tldr it's bad code:
- > swede marries american, moves to small town midwest, after kids she's shocked at how little time american children spend outside there's a scandinavian saying, there's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing — she moves her family to sweden to get back to that notes:
- whenever lofi girl protocol goes viral, people assume i'm anti screens –– it's really quite the opposite i decided to run a new experiment: i gave the now 4 year old an ipad, exclusively for texting a bold move, given one notable constraint he can't read
- Replying to @melissamy intention was to find a way to condition him that nothing on screens is particularly interesting or engaging i spent time thinking how to do this and remembered reading about public access channels in norway i decided to run an experiment with slow tv
- Replying to @melissamy intention was to find a way to condition him that nothing on screens is particularly interesting or engaging i spent time thinking how to do this and remembered reading about public access channels in norway i decided to run an experiment with slow tv
- Replying to @melissawhat is slow tv? in 2009 a norwegian producer puts a camera on train, records out window, and broadcasts the whole thing, uncut you watch scenery go by for 7 hours cbs interviews the guy and tells him it’s boring, and he says: “yes — like much of life itself, it’s boring”
- it’s time to whitepill x on parenting books, and i say let’s start with bringing up bebe — > american marries englishman, moves to france for reasons, slowly realizes she's raising french children, while she (for better or for worse) remains Very American notes:
- we bought all these singapore math books before our kid was born for some reason we thought the series started at 6 years old, he's 4 and it's clear we should've started at 3 he blew through the first two workbooks in two days and i've done a 180 on the power of worksheets
- i've long noticed that elite private schools all have the same specific failure mode –– one that's particularly insidious for gifted kids alpha school is most notable for, as far as i can tell, its rare immunity let's call it the 'good for your age' trap
- i had no strong opinions on screens, going into parenting here’s what worked for me (my friend @anabology called it lofi girl protocol) +