Carlos Chiriboga
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retreated from academia to the safety of like being a middle school teacher.
None of his kids are going to like challenge him intellectually, right?
He gets to be the cool kind of worshipped cool guy teacher.
And, you know, that's a comfortable spot for him.
And so, yeah.
And I mean, that's much more in line with who I kind of empathize with than the fearless hero.
I'm the fearful hero.
It's funny because when I wrote the book, I thought,
To myself, I was like, I would never be willing to sacrifice myself to save the world.
I'd really want someone to do it, but not me.
Someone should do this.
Someone should definitely do this.
Someone who is not me should do this.
No bad idea to brainstorm.
But what's weird is in the intervening time, my wife and I have had a kid.
And so now I have a little boy.
He's four years old.
And now I'm like, okay, I would die to save the world because he's on it, right?
And so it's kind of strange, just the way that parenthood changes you.