I'm a new father, and it's striking how things that previously seemed broad and philosophical get pressingly real as you become a parent. Parenthood is full of

I'm a new father, and it's striking how things that previously seemed broad and philosophical get pressingly real as you become a parent. Parenthood is full of great joys but also intense logistical realities: your time gets heavily scheduled for care and play. And when you see a child developing new abilities every week, your 5x/week decision on when to head home from the office becomes a very clear trade-off between working more and collecting a unique experience with the most compelling person you've ever met. For people who aren't yet parents, it compares a bit to the way your thinking about money matures when you get your first job. Suddenly a shirt equals two hours of labor instead of some abstract quantity of a theoretically finite resource. This triggers in many of us a quest to figure out income, so we can get the things we want. But even the affluent among us can't just throw more time at all the things they'd want to do.