James Kim
@jameskimEDU
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Partner @reachfund, backing founders who elevate human potential. Previously: @YaleUGA, @12plusphilly, @pvdschools. Dad of 3, husband, nerd. 🇰🇷🇺🇸
SF Bay Area
Joined July 2018
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I really really really hope my kids get into sci-fi/fantasy when they're old enough. It would be so fun to nerd out about the books that I read around this age but had no one to nerd out about with. Enderverse, all the Crichton books, Redwall, etc.
Gave the 10yo Ender's Game. Two days later he gives it back to me: "That was good. Is there a second one?".
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Never mind the old schools ways of building community (church, civic orgs), which still exist in the suburbs — you just need to seek them out proactively.
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Of course, it’s helpful for daycare/school to be walking distance from your home and the homes of the other families (like ours are). But it’s not strictly necessary if you’re intentional about spending time together.
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Suburbs are only isolating until you have kids. Then daycare/school families become your new village. I’ve experienced this firsthand!.
it often comes across this way, but having lived in stereotypical suburbs, exurban/near-rural middle america, and central to a large city, it's a bit more insidious than that. less so than bars or any specific individual thing, the suburbs were *holistically* isolating.
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Saw this on the ceiling of my wife’s OB/GYN appointment room. (Today’s our due date for #3, but no sign of labor yet.) Sent me down a ChatGPT rabbit hole. Turns out that nature imagery has been causally shown to reduce stress, anxiety, and pain during procedures. Interesting!
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this physically pains me.
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Cocomelon isn’t the only offender btw. There’s a whole YouTube genre of poorly animated engagement slop targeted to kids. Cars & trains crashing, wacky sound fx, stuff like that. But Moonbug/Cocomelon deserve special ire for turning toddler brain hijacking into big business.
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My 4yo and 2yo don’t get much screen time. (I’m not particularly opinionated about it for their age, we just keep them busy with IRL things.) But when they do get screen time, I draw the line at Cocomelon. It’s truly the dumpster juice of kids’ media.
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I despise Cocomelon. I can’t remember where but I heard someone describe it as optimized for engagement not entertainment (with all the attendant dopaminergic implications), and that’s exactly what it is. The closest analogy I can think of for grown-ups is slots.
'CocoMelon' is literally designed to put babies in a trance like state. They invented something called the "Distractatron" to measure every instance when a child's full attention strays
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I suppose the 2nd order effects on "civilization" are debatable. I'm esp sympathetic to arguments about time displacement and the ensuing erosion of civic engagement & social capital. But I think most people's understanding of the 1st order effects of gaming is exactly backwards.
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People often say stuff like this, but is it true? The one *causal* study I know of found that gaming decreases psychological distress and increases life satisfaction. The findings passed robustness checks with flying colors.
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RT @phokarlsson: "Reality is shy--it only reveals itself to those who do not wish it to be something else."
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Being in your mid-thirties is so weird. Gen X thinks you're still a baby. Gen Z thinks you're basically geriatric. Somehow both feel true at the same time.
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Our VP-elect is epistemology poasting. What a time to be alive.
One of the most important skills I see in successful (and good) people is to constantly reevaluate assumptions. They make predictions based on various inputs, some of them unknown, and reevaluate based on what they got right and wrong. They trust people not because they're always.
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Also note that Asian men were the most likely to have voted for neither Harris nor Trump — presumably abstention or 3rd party. Curious!.
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This is one of the most interesting cross-tabs of the election IMO. Nationally, Asians were the only race/ethnicity where women were more likely than men to vote for Trump. What's driving this?
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And yet, it's the truth. Finding joy in all things having to do with your kid, even — especially — the sacrifices, is the deep magic of parenthood. There's no way to understand it but to experience it.
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When I describe an experience like this to my friends who are debating whether to have kids, it doesn't make sense to them. And rightly so. There's no rational explanation for how one could find profound fulfillment cleaning snot off a kid's face at 3 am.
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