Jeff Kaufman's Writing from post 2260 back
Every few years ( 2020 , 2018 , 2016 , 2014 ) I like to look over our spending and write something up publicly. General advantages of being public here: This gives something I can point people to if they have questions about some aspect of how we handle money. Since almost everything we do either earns or costs money it can be a good overview of our current life situation. It helps others get a…
Quiddler is a card game, a cross between rummy and scrabble. I've been playing it on vacation with in-laws, and it suffers from the common drawback of games where your turn begins with drawing and ends with discarding: you begin your turn with new information, and so have to do a lot of thinking while everyone waits for you. This is something more recent games have fixed and we can make the same…
I recently switched from earning money to donate to doing something directly useful . I think this work is very important (or I wouldn't have switched!), and if I were still earning to give it's the kind of work I'd be excited to fund. I also think this about Julia's work; what should this mean for our donations? We've been donating 50%, and say we decide to continue doing that in future years.…
Julia recently posted an interview with Kat Woods on how Kat has thought through decisions around having kids. In her 20s she started strongly wanting to: I didn't want kids when I was younger, and then when I was about 20 I was in the park, minding my own business and a little toddler toddled up to me and he gave me this bent daisy. And my brain exploded! I was like, "Oh my God, I need babies…
Before I became a parent I cared about children in general, intellectually, in the same way that I care about people in general: a general sense that I want good things to happen to them. Over the first few days of Lily's life, however, I noticed I cared for her deeply and emotionally, where her wellbeing was incredibly important to me, and she was far more cuddly and interesting than I expected.…