That's true. I am starting to learn from my 5-year-old son. Just last week, he fixed the monorail onto the tracks so easily. It would take me an inordinate amount of time to do likewise haha

I think i will find it more fun when they grow up. I do like reading to my boy. Not to say that I can't read to my baby girl but she keeps slamming the cover haha.

I really dislike doing Lego. I'm not a hands-on person, but my boy is, so I gotta suck it up.

Indeed. One thing I try to do this year is to pick my boy up earlier at his childcare centre so that he has that 5-10 mins of free play at the playground before we head back home

That's awfully sweet. I can imagine you trying to keep a straight face when she uses one of your pet phrases haha

Thank you! Watching it right now!

Feels so good to zap you 500 sats. I have so many questions though, pls bear with me:

You don’t have to answer all questions, if at all! I just wanted to let you know how engaging your article was ;)

Father with two young kids.

I don’t care about optimising my morning routine. I need my TV! Haha

I do it while folding the laundry

Baby girl fell sick today, so I got off work early, napped with her and took out her toys to valiantly capture her attention. One thing I inadvertently did right before this saga: I had hidden some of her toys, so when I took them out, they felt novel to her and engaged her for a bit. Phew!

I love how you expose all these insidious connotations!

Except that I wake up at 5.30am to do housework ;(

I like waking up actually. 5.45-6am is my Netflix time!!

Michael Saylor is doing this via MicroStrategy too, right?

And my book review: Started “The Housekeeper and the Professor” last December and finished it today. If I had concentrated fully on it, I could have finished it much earlier but you know, life happens. It’s a testimony to the power of Yoko Ogawa’s storytelling that I knew that I would definitely finish her book. As the title suggests, this book centres around the relationship between a retired Maths professor and his housekeeper. Yoko Ogawa undoubtedly fleshed up her characters with complexities. The Maths professor met with an accident, which left him with a working memory of 80 minutes. The housekeeper is a single mother who struggles to raise her 10-year-old son who is nicknamed Root. I think this book pays homage to the resilience of the human spirit. Even though the Professor forgets his housekeeper every morning, somehow they have come up with coping mechanisms - so well that Root regularly comes to hang out after school. The Professor is aghast that the boy is a latchkey kid and insists that the housekeeper brings him along. In short, they are a surrogate family of three. I guess one reason why it took me so long to finish this book is that nothing major ever happens. No drama, just everyday events. (I cannot even use ‘vicissitudes of life’, much as I want to flaunt my vocabulary because this is not that kind of book.) Going to the barber, watching a live baseball match, celebrating Root’s birthday - not the climatic plot we have come to expect from page-turners. Still, this is a book about relationships, which is something the Japanese do so well. The housekeeper grows to care about Maths through interactions with the Professor and ponders hard to solve various Maths problems. At one point, she even goes to the library to do research. The Professor is fiercely protective of Root and encourages Root to think critically and arrive at an original method of solving Maths questions. The mother-son pair do everything they can to not inform the Professor that his baseball idol has actually retired donkey years ago. The process in which they learn to support one another is heartwarming to read. I really hope there would be a movie adaptation one day.

Writing! If I don’t write, the day feels off and unaccomplished to me.

Stacker News, ofc! But there are many avenues for writing, including your personal diary.

How is your diary writing coming along? xP

Your comment reminds me of the Yiddish word naches, the joy parents derive from raising adults

Ego masturbation

Have to admit that the first thing I thought of was Italian mafia. Haha

You spent more than I stacked!

11th. Bite my dust haha

Same! I made a deliberate decision to post strategically just to see how far up the Leaderboard I would climb yesterday. Oh well haha

Thank you for sharing your financial journey so generously. I discovered another benefit of tracking net worth - sometimes your financial philosophies n methodologies change n on hindsight, you can’t exactly pinpoint why or when. But tracking records for you the pivot in your financial strategy

My wife tracks her net worth. I have a rough idea of what mine is, and update her periodically, usually when I attain my savings goals for the year