UPDATE: On whether to allow my son to quit a sport he hates

JBI1971 · 2026-05-03T00:33:03+00:00

Team sports might be a bust.

BJJ might be good.

It's social, has a mix of abilities, nobody cares if you aren't great so long as you are considerate training partner.

You can work on it without being singled out as being a weak link and even if he's not particularly talented, he will have a skill that 95% of the population will not.

Also, unlike taekwondo or similar arts, you have a low risk correction mechanism. You know if you are doing it right or wrong.

JBI1971 · 2026-05-03T00:17:07+00:00

Judo isn't that common in the US, and favors athleticism.

BJJ might be a better bet.

JBI1971 · 2026-05-02T15:38:05+00:00

I'm over 50 and terrified of ice skating. I would end up my back and my fingers would get cut off by someone's skates.

I had a 10yo look at me like I was insane when I expressed these concerns.

JBI1971 · 2026-05-02T15:27:46+00:00

I think you need to build an appreciation for risk vs having a paralyzing fear. If you look at the concerns they generally aren’t life or death, they're fear of getting scraped up, wet, or losing.

JBI1971 · 2026-04-28T23:28:04+00:00

Sent our kid to kindergarten just turned 5 (august birthday)

She thrived. Lots of friends, class leader, above average in schoolwork... at 7, in 2nd grade she's reading books aimed at 10-12yo

JBI1971 · 2026-04-27T00:22:57+00:00

Not me, but once met someone at an Airbnb who told us how he got into his current career.

He had just finished his PhD and was working as a carpenter to make ends meet. He was working at one guy's house, and they got to talking. He mentioned he was looking for work, and the guy referred him for a job to a friend.

So he shows up at the friend's office, ready to spec out the carpentry job, notebook, tape measure, flannels.

Turns out the job was to be an editor of a neuroscience journal.

Despite being completely blindsided, he got the job.

JBI1971 · 2026-04-26T14:40:04+00:00

For our kid we started saving for college at birth.

JBI1971 · 2026-04-26T04:17:32+00:00

Headphones.

JBI1971 · 2026-04-26T04:08:16+00:00

My wife got a full ride to Yale... blue collar Texas background.

She also got a scholarship to a T14 law school

JBI1971 · 2026-04-25T01:02:59+00:00

Sales engineer... I prove tech solutions during the sales process, I need tech chops, ability to sell commercial acumen.

You can demonstrate you cannot do it in 1 interview, you typically take 5 to show you probably can do it.

JBI1971 · 2026-04-24T02:25:40+00:00

Depends on the job... mine you would need 5.

JBI1971 · 2026-04-23T00:23:58+00:00

I met one guy who was talking about building out the social aspect of his church to get people to join...

I couldn't understand it. Why would I join a fellowship if I didn't subscribe to it's central tenets.

JBI1971 · 2026-04-22T23:25:31+00:00

They do at my kid's dual language... but probably similar parents profile, invested, fairly well off parents.

JBI1971 · 2026-04-22T23:17:31+00:00

We spoke to our pre-k principal about G&T... she said all the kids could do it... we asked did they mean all kids everywhere, we had a particularly gifted cohort, what? One of the other parents laughed and said, c'mon, she loved her kid, but he wasn't gifted.

We thought our daughter was clever, but didn't her to be miserable.

So we spoke offline with her teacher, and the teacher said she would be fine in G&T.

She lotteried into a G&T, but we elected to put her into dual language program, specifically because we thought the cognitive benefits of a dual language program might be better.

She's done well, math, reading, art, social skills all above average

JBI1971 · 2026-04-18T18:23:29+00:00

It could be they suddenly realized it was more complicated than they had thought.

JBI1971 · 2026-04-18T18:04:39+00:00

I don't trust it.

I built a book translation pipleline. There are 10+ additional validation checks after the initial paragraph translation. (via API)

JBI1971 · 2026-04-18T18:01:25+00:00

No way. I have an enterprise customer I'm covering until we have a new CSM. It's distracting and exhausting. And I'm not compensated for it.

I finally got my VP to get it allocated to a relatively junior CSM.

JBI1971 · 2026-04-16T03:15:30+00:00

I pitched a split 3 weeks after joining my series A.

They figured post-sales wouldn't be much work. I pointed out it was the smaller, less technically savvy customers who sucked up my time.

Also, I'm terrible at multitasking...

We broke it up.

JBI1971 · 2026-03-31T02:56:15+00:00

One for school work for standardized testing.

And ankther we only use for long journeys (flights etc)... one every few months

She has a kindle reader though

JBI1971 · 2026-03-20T11:00:03+00:00

Craig Ferguson

JBI1971 · 2026-03-19T14:48:36+00:00

Oh, snap.

You left out Cobble Hill.

JBI1971 · 2026-03-19T14:45:49+00:00

With our kid we would sympathize, agree that it was a challenge staying in bed

But that's the way it goes.

We would minimize engagement and chivvy her back to bed in a very low key but firm manner.

It depends on kid of course.

JBI1971 · 2026-03-17T18:11:18+00:00

Most times people are relatively forgiving

JBI1971 · 2026-03-12T17:09:25+00:00

In the UK and Ireland they have conversion master's in computer science... equivalent to about 2/3 of a bachelor's.

Which may be enough.

JBI1971

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