David Senra

You were just something that like came out of the left field.

And everything interesting I've ever done came out of left field.

And it's, which is why I don't keep long-term goals or short-term goals is that opportunity just, I'm very open to opportunity along this principle.

And so I'm very enamored of this idea for how to live.

At what age did you stop having goals?

Well, this essay that I wrote, I wrote,

I'm 40 now.

I wrote when I was 28 because I wrote it on the train.

I used to commute back and forth from New York City to Stanford, Connecticut.

I was about to have my first child, my son, Pierce.

And my dad, when I was 21, handed me this book of letters that he had been writing to me since I was born.

And a lot of them were when I was like a baby.

And I've done the same thing for my son, and it's the same pattern.

There's tons of letters in the first couple of years, and then it gets more spaced out.

And now I do one on his birthday every year and things like this.

And I'm going to give him a packet of letters as well when he turns 21.

And I remember starting this process of wanting to write him a letter before he was born.

And it gets, it got me wondering about, like, what is good parenting?

Like, what do I want to do as a dad?

And I believe deeply in showing, not telling.