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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Aug 2017
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      3/ It is traditional in the US today to measure babies in terms of how much they cost ($1 million for middle class baby through college)

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      4/ But this is the wrong way around. Children are the measure of economics-priced things, not the other way around.

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      5/ One child is basically a certain fraction of no-strings/no-preset-budget time/quality attention allocation for rest of life

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      6/ Memetic children have higher infant mortality rate, but the principle is the same. I'd guess one childbirth (for men)= writing 3 books

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      7/ Not all projects are ambition vehicles, or comparable to children. Close-ended projects with end date are not like children.

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      8/ The reason a book is like a child is that *if* it succeeds enough, it is an indefinite demand on your attention

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      9/ A flop book, or a mercenary/tactical book for which you have no ambitions beyond a seasonal fad harvest is like an child that dies young

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      10/ More calibration. An ordinary startup is like 1 child. If it grows into unicorn, it's like 3-4 kids for the founder if they stay with it

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      11/ Political ambitions I think are higher. A local election bid is like 1 child if you win. National-level is like 2. President=10

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      12/ The trick to baby equivalent things is that *if* they succeed, they demand particular levels of attention/commitment for rest of life

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Aug 2017
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      13/ So we actually bring the same kind of thinking to managing ambition as we do to child-rearing and ask similar questions

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          14/ How much will it cost? Is it sick? Will it go to college? How many can I afford to have?

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          15/ Answering my own q about why we lower sights through life in general if we're not winning egregiously, baby-economics provides answer

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