On The Web We All Become Small-town

Owning Our Past Allows Us To Own Our Future.

The Radio Was An Improvement On The Telegraph But It Didn't Have The Same Exponential, Transformative Effect.

There Is A Tension Between Our Desire To Get Our Kids To Turn Out A Particular Way Versus Letting Them Develop To Be Their Own Person. If There Were A Pill That Would Make My Child Turn Out The Way I Wanted, I'm Not Sure I'd Take It.

If You Just Got Enough Expertise And Enough Special Techniques And Read Up Enough, Then You Could Shape A Child Into The Kind Of Adult You Wanted. There's Almost This Kind Of Competitive Enterprise. That Picture Is The Picture I Think People Often Imply When They Use The Word "parenting".

It's Turns Out To Be Much Easier To Simulate A Grandmaster Chess Player Than It Is To Simulate A 2-year-old.