Being a Great Person, Adam's Diagnosis, LinkedIn Parents, and AI Money
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I gotta pee. Ooh. The sounds you make when you gotta pee. Oh my God. How's the nanny?
Fantastic. It's actually a team. We have a small team of nannies. We have two. OK, so one one of them can't do enough of the hours. So we found somebody who does want more hours. So we're kind of shifting the one into more of a babysitter ad hoc role and the other into the full time nanny. Anyway, it's yeah. It's a group effort. We have special needs children. Literally. But in the other way, I could mean that, I guess. I don't know. Yeah.
You're also special. You're also special needs.
I'm also special needs. Okay, yeah. Let's talk about that. I'm bipolar, which I think I knew. I even found a tweet where I tweeted something about hypomania. probably talked about on this podcast. My memory is very obvious. It's very obvious. Yeah. In retrospect, I should have always known. But the thing that's not obvious or the thing that I'm now that I actually have the official you are bipolar diagnosis is it's not obvious how life should work or how i should be like i enjoy being manic or hypomanic i'm not sure that i'm actually manic i'm just new to the bipolar reddit uh i'm catching up to speed it turns out lots of people that have lots of similar life experiences that's the great part about diagnosis is i never would have thought to look up like a community of people with bipolar and like what do they have to say about things
And it's amazing just immediately how many threads on Reddit I've read that I'm like, wow, that is so nice to see I am not just weird or whatever. Like there are people who have navigated this and found good solutions. So the main, the crux of the problem is, if I were a single man and I didn't have a family and I just was a lone wolf, like I seem to want to be at times, like I, I tend toward lone wolfness, just very isolated. I enjoy autonomy. I don't seem to need people. Uh, if I were that person, I would just be manic all the time. And that, because it feels amazing. I mean, it is a high and I, There's a lot of like societal acceptance of people who get a lot done. And I get a lot done when I wake up at three in the morning and when I don't want to do anything but sit at my desk and produce things. Like it is rewarding in so many ways, mostly career and just feeling really good. Like I'm on crack all the time. But it's like also terrible for my health.
Like, so I would probably live a very short, intense life if left to my own devices.
Because like sleeping. Because like you don't sleep.
Yeah, you don't sleep enough. Like I sleep four or five hours a night. That's not enough hours.
Yeah.
But it feels like it's enough. That's what's always been weird to me. I've always said like, I just don't need that much sleep. Like Casey sleeps like almost twice as much as me. And I'm like, it's whatever. I just don't need much sleep. I'm an abnormal adult. But that's just the mania talking. And I did know that I have these like periods where I'll go two, three months where I'm really not sleeping enough. And I'm up and very excited. It's like Christmas morning every day. And then I crash for like two weeks where I just don't want to get out of bed. And I sleep like 10 hours a night. And it's like, this is weird. What's this about? Is this depression? I've always been back and forth and never thought about maybe there's a happy middle. I just don't know how much of my life I've lived not in one of those two states. It feels like most of my adult life, I've been one of those two things. Now, as a married man with children, I have to figure out I am my best self, my best father and husband self.
Maybe not my best co-worker slash cog in society, but I am my best human being to be around when I'm not in those extremes, when I sleep enough and I'm healthy and I'm not just jittering all over the house. I actually think about other things when things slow down. I don't just think about my work. So yeah, trying to figure all that out. I think I'm in a normal state right now.
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