> Before I had kids, I had moments of this kind of peace, but they were rarer. My cynical take: certainly, for people with sufficiently stressful jobs, having

> Before I had kids, I had moments of this kind of peace, but they were rarer. My cynical take: certainly, for people with sufficiently stressful jobs, having kids is going to be less stressful. Still, it's far easier to switch jobs, or take up meditation. Plus, then I won't have that old stressful job! > On the other hand, what kind of wimpy ambition do you have if it won't survive having kids? Do you have so little to spare? This definitely reads like it was written by someone who made a lot of money, and then had kids. 13 years ago, he wrote: "Young startups are fragile. A society that trims its margins sharply will kill them all." You just need to have so much ambition you can afford to spare it, even though you're doing something where the margins are so thin they mean the difference between life and death!