Scott Alexander

I read SRTHMK, hoping it would have some loophole.

One weird trick that would let me stop feeling overwhelmed and join the ranks of those pronatalist influencers who blog about how childcare is great, and you should go ahead and have kids right now, even if you're only 25, even if you don't have your career totally figured out, even if you lost all your limbs in a tragic boating accident and are incapable of independent movement.

It doesn't.

At least, not for one-year-olds.

Instead, it had a vibe.

Stop beating yourself up over your parenting decisions.

So I put out a classified ad for babysitters and got two people I really like.

Things are a little better now.

I can even write research-filled book reviews again.

This whole time I was reading Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids when I should have been waiting for Pro Market and Pro Business, released last month, now available on Amazon.

There really is a Brian Kaplan book for everything.

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Thank you for listening, and I'll speak to you next time.

I think you're hyping up a little bit too much.

Yes, I do recommend people go read the old thing I did, which was a blog post.

I think it got a bunch of stuff right, a bunch of stuff wrong, but overall held up pretty well and inspired me to try again and do a better version of it.