If you can’t walk, then you can’t run. If you don’t sleep well or eat well then even walking becomes more difficult. Do you start cleaning your room only when there’s no room left to walk? Do you stop cleaning your room right when there is enough room to walk? If you went further, until …
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You can lead a kid to a bed, but you can’t make them sleep.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. The version of that that I’m living right now is: You can lead a kid to bed, but you can’t make them sleep. You probably have your own version. You can control some things, but not everything. So just do what you …
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What is your job?
One of our sprinkler pipes busted and I called a plumber to see if he could fix it. He was very friendly and told me I might be able to fix it myself—as if I were calling a chef to see if she could come over and cut my carrots for me. He proceeded: “You …
What do you want?
My 2-year-old had a hard time going to sleep last night. She cried, “Daddy!” when she was with her mommy and cried, “Mommy!” when she was with her daddy. We didn’t know what she wanted, until finally she fell asleep with mommy instead of staying up with daddy. You can say whatever you want, even …
Containers
When you’re looking for something, it’s helpful to have containers so that you know where to look within. It’s easy to find your car because it’s in the garage and there are only 2 cars in the garage. It’s relatively easy to find the forks in the silverware drawer because there’s only silverware in that …
Work you love
Many of the people who have made enough money to retire early and just go to the beach everyday don’t do that. Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg—they keep working at the jobs that made them billions. If you think you’re going to make a lot of money and then retire early, you might be …
Order
Some streets in San Francisco are numbered, which makes it easy to navigate. You know that if you’re on 24th Avenue, then you’re in between 23rd Avenue and 25th Avenue, and that you’re a long ways from 48th Avenue. Other streets are in alphabetical order, like streets that begin with Q, R, S, and T …
Confusion is a long time
One second is a long time when you don’t know what’s going on. We are weaning our daughter from her mother’s milk because she’s starting to get a cavity. She doesn’t understand what we’re doing. She just wants her mother’s milk and knows that she’s not getting it. She doesn’t know why. One second is …
The worst of it
I’m an optimist and don’t tend to think about the bad and the worst but today I was surfing 5-7 foot waves and 7-foot waves are pushing the limits of what I’m comfortable with so I tried to sit closer to the beach where the 5-foot waves would be but the problem is that sitting …
Unremembered moments
Last night, we started weaning my daughter from breastmilk and so my wife stayed with her parents and our daughter stayed with me. Most of the night felt like a sleepless night for my daughter and I but while it felt terrible in the moment, it’s the sort of terribleness that I will eventually (if …