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• you save a lot of money. People easily forget how it all adds up.
• you save a lot of space. Cars take up a huge amount of space and are just sitting around 90+% of the time. Imagine what you could do with a garage if you didn't own a car.
• you save a lot of time. A car needs maintenance, it needs to get cleaned, etc. All of that takes up time.
• less worries. About money, about it getting stolen or damaged, etc.
• you don't need a driver's license per se if you don't own a car.
• you don't have the sunk cost forcing you to use it. Say you buy a car and then you end up barely using it. You might feel obliged to use the car to go shopping or to go on vacation, because it would be 'wasted' otherwise.

Because I like small diagrams and schematics. Doing that in an app, especially on a phone, is tricky. And I find that structuring my thoughts on paper just works better than doing it digitally straight away.

An irrational fear of suddenly using all of it up. Before they got their phones, we drilled it into them to be conservative in their data usage. It's not that they complain that they have too little data, or how annoying it is that they have to leave it switched off to conserve it, they somehow are convinced that it is pointless to leave it on. We have mentioned numerous times that we'd be fine with upgrading their data plan, but they don't want to. It's like us in the nineties dialing into our ISP to download e-mail. Weird. Cheap. But weird.

I send SM's to my kids when they're on the go, as they religiously disable gsm data and only use wifi, which means they regularly don't get my WhatsApp messages.

Before they got their own smartphone I was scared that their data plans would cost me an arm and a leg, but it turns out they're extremely stingy with their data 🤷‍♂️

There are degrees of monitoring. This is basically my approach:

• no smartphone before 12yrs old
• no computer, tablet, smartphone or similar in their bedroom before 16yrs old, specifically at night.
• family link (android) installed, with tighter controls the younger they are. This is discussed and also explained as a measure to protect them
• if they are under 16, we create social media accounts together and discuss what is appropriate, what can/should be public/private etc.

That is basically it. A lot of it is being around, available and approachable. It's not perfect, but it has several layers of protection, and is built around creating trust and teaching valuable media skills.

If I had to pick one, I'd say the 'no internet devices in bedrooms' would be the most valuable one. Because of that, I know what games my kids play, they can deconnect at night, and it's fairly easy to enforce.

Edgelord points.

The sad/tragic thing is he probably doesn't realize that and he is surrounded by people who reinforce that. He never had any business running a company this size.

I don't think he cares about the money all that much, he just wants to be the nr.1 tech YouTube guy. If he was in it for the money, he'd be doing something else. He wants to be validated above all, and he has little regard for other people's needs. That's a dangerous cocktail.

Something Linus doesn't/didn't seem to understand is that if this sort of thing happens, it's his job as CEO to be aware of it and to be doing something about it.

I would advise against making that judgement on how a person looks.

Another 'friend boss' thing is also being completely blind to your own position of power. He thinks he can 'chum around' with anyone at the company, make 'jokes' about the quality of their work, etc. like he could with an equal. He doesn't realize how scary that actually is, and thinks anyone who would say such a thing is just oversensitive. Validated by the fact that hardly anyone ever dares speaking up instead of just awkwardly smiling and nodding.

"We're like a close-knit family here. Except I pay you and I have a contract that says I can tell you what to do for eight hours a day."