Make time for your kids. It's really easy, as a hacker/startup founder/equity holder to say "Well, X is really important, I need to do that first." You'll alway

Make time for your kids. It's really easy, as a hacker/startup founder/equity holder to say "Well, X is really important, I need to do that first." You'll always have more X. Take time, play with your kids, love on them, take them to the park, draw with them. I have a son who is almost 2, and two of his favorite things to do with me are to read books (he'll bring me a book, crawl up in my lap, and snuggle up. When we finish the book he runs off to get another one and repeats the whole process) and play with his hotwheels cars on my desk. It means the world to him when I clear off my notes and keyboard and mouse and just spend a half hour racing cars back and forth over it. That half hour I might have spent reading HN, or testing some new feature, or whatnot, sure, but I'm starting to learn that the things that seem small and unimportant to me are the highlight of his week. Don't get so caught up in providing for your family that you forget to be a father - it's enormously easy to do so.