One of my more controversial beliefs on raising children is that you probably want to raise theater kids. Theater, debate, speech, song, something that requires performance in front of a room full of people, alone with a spotlight, where if you fail you fail alone.
Learning the embarrassment of forgetting a line or your notes as a kid— and moving on from it —is a valuable skill that’s harder to learn and gets more painful with age. Sports won’t teach a kid this.
Fwiw, you can often tell the founders, politicians and leaders that did debate and theater growing up from the ones who didn’t. There’s a reason for that. Comfort in front of an audience comes from practice.
It’s my son’s first birthday so in true millennial fashion I’m going to talk about me:
A few days after my son was born, I started writing “Can Zoom Save the American Family?” It turned out to be the roadmap for our lives, where we’re working on Zoom, socializing in the metaverse and physically living near family in a corporate family model. boyle.substack.com/p/can-zoom-sav…
Dec 3, 2021 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
To those at Reagan National Defense Forum #RNDF, if there’s one BLUF you take away from the weekend, you should know: Time is running out with Silicon Valley.
After five years of DOD saying “we want to work with the best startups”, we have, at most, two years before founders walk away and private capital dries up. And many, many startups will go out of business waiting for DOD to award real production contracts.
