I do OMAD. Here's what I do when traveling, for example in Spain.

Bought bread, jamón serrano, cheese, a few cherry tomatoes, plain yoghurt, nectarines and dry nuts at the supermarket.

Ate a gourmet meal that would cost $100+ in a restaurant for about $30 in the park and I had so much jamón I wanted to throw up.

Congrats bruh!

Look at your kids in the eye, often, no phone in hand, and realize how creative, powerful, amazing, creatures they are. People say AI this AI that but have they ever seen a child engage with the world? This is a sight like no other. Non-parents will never understand (and that's absolutely fine btw)

Children are more present than buddhist monks who practice being present for 50 years.

My observations led me to end up homeschooling my two kids. They are the happiest kids in the world.

Books are good but follow your and their instincts, provided you have good instincts ;)

Edit: as others mentioned, when they are babies just hang on tight. The craziness ends at some point.

Travel

(Family of 4, so...)

Go to a Michael Jackson concert.

RIP MJ

OMADer here and also did multi dat fasts

I'm a dad of two in my 40s and I'm more energetic and more fit than most of my younger bachelor friends. I never thought I'd have abs (I only do bodyweight stuff and not very intense)

Fasting and quitting shitty carbs changed my life.

If you were top 1% programmers in the world (I consider myself to be so, in my area, Frontend. My salary also told me so) you would be surprised how often this happens too in my field at the cutting edge.

I often had to correct my colleagues when AI made an error.

It's not bad. I know juniors are sh*tting their pants. But reaaally complex stuff, naaw man

My dad crossed the whole mountain range of the country in a month's time, carrying heavy artillery while in the army. I believe it was 35kg.

I know this to be true because I met hikers who took this trek. They can still hike with heavy backpacks despite their age.

Fellow OMADer here. Did it for abt 8 months and now do mostly 18-30 hours fasts

Lost about 18kg and now I can mostly see my abs.

Also love naps and cold showers

Keep it up!

My son loves rock climbing. Like he's absolutely hooked and I love it too. He's 6

100%

Because dance and many physical activities are so (duh) physical, the process of making friends is accelerated tenfold. I'm in a country where I don't speak the language well but I'm making friends in a couple months that feel like it's been 6 or 8 months.

In the case of female friends, dance helps a lot. Maybe 80% friends are female. In the case of men, sports. In that case 80% men.

I like to have both types of friends. My wife agrees it's very healthy for my life.

Go to dance classes Or join a sports club

I've met more than a thousand people in dance.

Yes, our directions were based on NSEW coordinates

Example:

From the southeast corner of the church, go north 200 meters then west 50 meters

Hundreds of cues.

My mom always knows north. The church pointed it, a park, a landmark, buildings, etc.

In her brain she has thousands of reference points. And with every turn, the brain kind of knows.

I have a friend like that too, and when he uses the GPS he is god like.

If you read the book Be Careful There Are Snakes, the Amazonian Piranha were very skillful at knowing directioms based on the direction of the river.

Also there is a thing called the sun, very useful.

this is exactly how I felt using LLMs. Everyone and their mom hates doing code review. Everyone who loves coding ... well loves coding.

I'm kind of bummed completely by what's going on now. But what to do.

I bundle things together. And try to waste as little time as possible. Very little social media, and zero Netflix or YT rabbit holes.

IE: while kids are in the playground, I do calisthenics and yoga.

I got with my son bouldering together, so both of us get a workout and share time together.

As soon as I have a small gap of time (IE: kids go to the bath tub together), I read and study in one of the languages I am learning.

it's a dream for my children and a huge challenge for us as parents

Well I have to thank my son who goes bouldering with me for helping with the six-pack (bouldering is amazing for it)

Being great at almost anything to be honest.

I speak 5 languages, have two kids who are homeschooled, and a six pack. I also had a 6-figure salary.

Most of it comes with a lot of responsibilities and behind the scenes work.

Get rid of filler words. TODAY.

Like uhh but emmm actually etc.

Ask your wife to hit you everytime you say them

Preferrably with a bamboo stick

Surprised no mention of this one:

Robots / AI / AGI / GAI will replace everything

Still, this time the robots are quite powerful. We'll see

My kids are homeschooled.

When people tell me that I'm screwing them up, I tell them to come and meet them.

My young one (3) speaks 2 languages and understands 4. My older one (6) speaks all 4 of them.

All difficult (except English) and important languages. They are very social, and my son excels in math and sports. He can read.

People usually have no seconds thoughts that school is unnecessary after they meet them.