Description: Victor Wong is an Internet entrepreneur who fantasizes about being a restauranteur or writer but needs to do something far more practical to pay the SF rent. He is the CEO of Thunder. i am victorious...
The excellent luminary and essayist, Paul Graham, articulates what it’s like to have kids and why we shouldn’t be afraid – a younger me may have been cynical enough to dismiss it but now I whole heartedly agree as a parent.
We project our current selves out 10 years and think we’ll be the same person just older and armed with the same perfected knowledge we have now. However we definitely think we are much smarter and wiser than our younger self. We never quite reconcile those conflicting thoughts and I’m guilty of that as well especially when it came to parenthood. I was so wrong years ago about parenthood and that peak adulthood experience would be before having a kid.
A lot of that has to do with the “selection bias” Paul refers to where pre-parenthood we only notice kids and how it makes us think of the parent experience: