"Make a beautiful Bubble of your own." Some great advice from a great person you may not have heard from: Bryan Caplan. Maybe I like this so much because it fits my world view. Confirmation bias can be a powerful thing, as Caplan would probably tell you. Caplan also wrote " Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids ," which I used as a primer to my life as a triplet dad. Essentially, raising kids isn't as hard as we sometimes make it. Genetics plays a majority role in whatever they will become. We are more guidance systems directing them on their path rather than leaders bringing them down it. But that is for another time. The quote comes from an article in which Caplan laments his time as a teenage misanthrope (who wasn’t?). Caplan’s teenage self found the world “dreary, insipid, ugly, boring, wrong, and wicked.” So what did he do? He created a world around him that is beautiful in his eyes. As Caplan says: “Either...
We tried for one, and we ended up with a bushel of fun.