Tommy Leep

We tell young people in our society that end of the rainbow is retirement at 65. We ought to tell them that "there is going to be this short but beautiful golden window from roughly age 3 to roughly age 12 where your kids are not only easy (comparatively to bottles & diapers), but are going to be these beautiful little creatures and it will pain your heart to be away from them for too long. So, prepare in your 20's, financially and career wise, to build that flexibility into that chapter of your life". You don't get another shot at living the "golden window". And, for me, leaning hard into that golden window has made everything else in my life feel fairly insignificant in comparison. I have made plenty of mistakes as a father, but what I won't have is the regret of having been distracted and absent from these formative years. In some cases, that has required financial sacrifices (declining a particular career opportunity that would have required relocation), but I personally have zero regrets. I also hear from some ambitious & successful people with a 4 year old that say "I've lost my ambition, I am so immersed in fatherhood". At least for me, and a number of my friends, it comes back. You can't keep an ambitious person down and if you have the fire, hanging at a playground on too many Tuesday afternoons is going to feel like torture after too long. My three boys are approaching 13, 11 & 9, and it's much different than 7, 5 & 3. This summer, for example, they slept until 11am and I hard an unencumbered 6am-12pm to work (being on PT helps), then got another great window 7-11pm, but was able to be present in the heart of the day, then weeks when they were at basketball camp, etc. It gets easier, your time frees up again (there's a sadness to that too), but I'm back to working as intensely as I did pre-kids just because my day to day presence requires fewer hours than it did before (also, my wife is just superbly wonderful). And that is the beautiful gift of entrepreneurship (or at least my sort of business), the ability to deliver still a high level of output but work that around your life rather than the opposite. TLDR, grind before, and grind after. Prepare for the golden window.

the old education system is like dead dead there's literally never been a better time in history to homeschool your kids with AI you can now just prompt it to create an entire curriculum for your kid, give lessons, generate interactive quizzes to see what they're actually learning, explain things in a hundred different ways until they understand, adapt the difficulty and pace to their progress, generate videos, etc etc you could probably give your kids a much better education in a fraction of the time they'd otherwise spend sitting in a classroom learning the same things at the same pace as 30 other kids and then spend all that extra time playing with them, exploring, doing sports, reading, traveling, whatever it's actually insane when you think about it

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Whenever someone predicts a thing that will take a long time for ai to automate, there’s a good chance that’s actually the next thing ai will automate.

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora says the AI profit pool could shift from chips toward owners of scarce compute, because demand is "insatiable" “So that’s probably what’s going to happen because it’s a matter of the profit pool, right? It all depends on where you shift the profit pool. “Today, they all live in Nvidia and the memory industry, and they’re being shifted towards the hyperscalers, people who have large compute available, because at one point it’ll become less about the chips, it’ll become more about the availability of compute, because I think demand is insatiable.” “There’s enough demand. There’s more demand than you and I can imagine. So yes, I understand the enterprise diffusion comment, but it’s going to get diffused. “The question is, even if you try, if every company in the world today said, I’m in, I’m in, I’m ready, I’m embracing AI, let’s go as fast as we can, there’s not enough compute in the world to satisfy us.”