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What is playing house?

• quotz 5y ago
  Pretending
• andyferris 5y ago
  Pretending. Kids play a game where someone pretends to be the mum, the dad, the baby, etc, and pretend be family. So someone is pretending be a responsible parent (and the commenter here is insinuating the wannabe co-founder is just pretending they have the necessary skills and abilities). As a kid, we never really had a name for it, but adults seem to refer to the activity as “playing house”.
  • dgs_sgd 5y ago
    Ah, thanks
• redis_mlc 5y ago
  There were some articles about WeWork where "startup founders" would rent a spot just to have coffee and pickup women working there. No product, not even a design. I think that was peak "playing house", though one guy said to me, "My wife won't let me work after dinner or on weekends." My response was, "Ask her if she wants to buy a house in Silicon Valley. Then tell her you're working 100 hours a week until then."
• ToJans 5y ago
  Another way to put it: people who like the title more than they like the job...