Just a little (link) love: feeling like mush edition
July 25, 2019
Oops. Little known tidbit: I did multi-lingual wedding invitations for our ‘do and misspelled a couple words.
Parenting strategy: I wonder if JB likes cars enough for this analogy to work or if we can come up with a similar one. I actually have been doing something a little different – when I discipline, I also ask JB what ze could have done differently and after months of that, when I least expected it, ze offered up the “what I should have done was…”
I love this moment that Moriah Joy has, realizing where they are now, and her mental shift. It took me six years into my money and blogging journey to come to that moment myself.
US birth rates are at lowest levels in 32 years. I had to look up why not exactly replacing a generation matters when we’re also concerned about too many people and not enough resources on a planet that’s been strained by human use. It’s a weird dichotomy. I have friends with 3-5 kids and also a lot of friends without any or who stopped at 1, across spectrum of regions, ages, and races. I assumed it would average out to an equal replacement rate.
Oh, of course “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” was a lobbyist thing.
Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think. I had no data on it but this is kind of line for what I was expecting for myself: “But the odds are he won’t be able to. The data are shockingly clear that for most people, in most fields, decline starts earlier than almost anyone thinks.
According to research by Dean Keith Simonton, a professor emeritus of psychology at UC Davis and one of the world’s leading experts on the trajectories of creative careers, success and productivity increase for the first 20 years after the inception of a career, on average. So if you start a career in earnest at 30, expect to do your best work around 50 and go into decline soon after that.”
Chocolate and breakfast, oh how they have betrayed me. 😛
Birth rate declining seems like nbd for a country’s replacement rate, as long as you’re willing to take in immigrants. Even Japan, that’s actually declining in population, doesn’t seem likep a terrible place to live, at least not yet.