Big Congratulations to you both! Eva is absolutely beautiful 😍
"Q: What do Plato, Diogenes, Epicurus, Augustine, ...Foucault, and Badiou have in common?
A: None of them had children."
And those who did, they had all their needs met and taken care of by wives and staff...!
It is still happening today: "bro" entrepreneurs and productivity influencers who have families, forget to add that they can only practice what they preach because *someone else* is covering their job at home...
It's so refreshing to see a father asking for support, questioning if one can do intellectual work while making humans. Reaching out to the community is the best way! Love this, Bryan!
1. You will get unsolicited advice. Like all advice, this will often be wrong. It will also be intensely personal and judgmental. Try diffusing this by asking for small favors instead (eg. “can you hold the baby for half an hour while I take a nap?” or “could you run to the store to pick up __ for me?”)
2. The one piece of advice that’s always correct and that you’ll ignore the most is “take some rest.”
Love this, and let’s give a shoutout to the great philosophers that did have children, Aristotle, Berkeley, Hegel, Marx, Russell and Dewey, among others.
I’ve also noticed that parents tend to talk much more about the difficulties of parenthood than it’s pleasures - I assume it varies from culture to culture, but in England we do love to grumble, and I think there’s often a perception that sharing one’s joy and good fortune can be a little impolite, or insensitive to those who lack it. And I guess there’s some truth in that but equally it seems really important that there should be contexts where that joy can be honestly shared.
Big Congratulations to you both! Eva is absolutely beautiful 😍
"Q: What do Plato, Diogenes, Epicurus, Augustine, ...Foucault, and Badiou have in common?
A: None of them had children."
And those who did, they had all their needs met and taken care of by wives and staff...!
It is still happening today: "bro" entrepreneurs and productivity influencers who have families, forget to add that they can only practice what they preach because *someone else* is covering their job at home...
It's so refreshing to see a father asking for support, questioning if one can do intellectual work while making humans. Reaching out to the community is the best way! Love this, Bryan!
Congratulations! As a first time parent:
1. You will get unsolicited advice. Like all advice, this will often be wrong. It will also be intensely personal and judgmental. Try diffusing this by asking for small favors instead (eg. “can you hold the baby for half an hour while I take a nap?” or “could you run to the store to pick up __ for me?”)
2. The one piece of advice that’s always correct and that you’ll ignore the most is “take some rest.”
Love this, and let’s give a shoutout to the great philosophers that did have children, Aristotle, Berkeley, Hegel, Marx, Russell and Dewey, among others.
I’ve also noticed that parents tend to talk much more about the difficulties of parenthood than it’s pleasures - I assume it varies from culture to culture, but in England we do love to grumble, and I think there’s often a perception that sharing one’s joy and good fortune can be a little impolite, or insensitive to those who lack it. And I guess there’s some truth in that but equally it seems really important that there should be contexts where that joy can be honestly shared.
Congratulations to both of you. Welcome dear Evangeline <3. I hope this new phase ushers in flourishing of the heart and mind :)