I think a lot about society and culture -- especially now that we have a young child. I think a lot of the "ills" are just different manifestations of bad paren

I think a lot about society and culture -- especially now that we have a young child. I think a lot of the "ills" are just different manifestations of bad parenting. It's a values thing -- I learned from my parents and grandparents to think futuristically, to get value by creating value, to be suspicious of the free lunch, to not orient my sense of self too much around what others around me are thinking and doing. This set of thinking prevents me from being interested in being an influencer, which is the same thing that kept me from being sucked into the dot-com boom and bust, from getting excited about crypto, from being sucked into the ebbs and flows of caring about what twitter cares about, etc. There's a sort of steadiness that comes from your parenting and your values. And in the lack of that, you fall for one thing or another. If it wasn't "influencing," it'd be something else.