Ryan Holiday

We must be kind to our family.

We must forgive because they are all we have.

Like us, they are not perfect, not by a long shot.

In fact, they might be obnoxious or deeply flawed, but they are our blood.

We share a past.

And if we want to share a future, we need to see what is good in them and encourage that.

Up to a point, of course.

But now, let's grab the kindness and forgiveness and love handle.

Look for it and look away.

They'll wreck this.

It was a pretty stupid controversy.

Josh Gottheimer, a congressman from New Jersey, he got caught photoshopping his 2024 Spotify rap list to include more Bruce Springsteen.

He had added in Thunder Road and Badlands and The Rising to his most listened songs of the year and then posted it on social media.

How did he think he was going to get away with that?

Well, as parents, we probably shouldn't judge.

In fact, we should empathize.

As the apologetic and now even more embarrassed congressman explained after online sleuths noticed the telltale signs of editing, the problem was that he shared a Spotify account with his teenage kids and they had wrecked his algorithm.

Who amongst us has not had our YouTube and Netflix and Spotify accounts horribly skewed by our kids' love of Nerdcore or the Frozen soundtrack?

How will we ever convince Google that we do not, in fact, like Mr. Beast or prank videos?

Will our Netflix suggestions ever recover from the Cocomelon we have watched?