> 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
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
my 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
my 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
what 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