Tobi Lütke

Everyone looks at them.

Yet.

And then everything's okay.

The reason is, everything's interesting because it is.

I don't want my kids to treat anything as a black box.

A computer is not allowed to be a computer.

A computer actually does things.

It's a thing called a transistor, which makes something called a NAND gate, which then makes some other gates, and at some point you can do calculations, and then there's memory and accumulators and a CPU, and eventually...

It's just math.

It doesn't do anything magical.

It just does a sequence of steps that manipulate memory really, really fast.

And so magical things happen when you can do something very simple, very fast.

And so, you know, just breaking black boxes with them is important.

So my policy is when one of my kids comes up at a book from home anywhere and asks me a question, I will stop what I'm doing and I'll answer it, always.

And they know to not misuse that now, but they used to, which was also adorable and funny.

And usually I try to answer their question.

If I can't, I sit down with them and

figure out with them how I would research the answer to the question now, and then I send them to go do it, and then they have to report back, ideally, usually at dinner.

And so I think that was a sort of little vignette in how this all goes, and I think that's

I mean, like, are we perfect parents?