Obama said he was shocked by how many people he met as president, and all they wanted to do was take a picture - even though there's a professional White House photographer recording everything and the pictures are made available. Heck - you're with the president: be in the moment.
I became familiar with the term "quality time" as a contrast to "quantity time," regarding child rearing. As both parents began working outside of the home, and less time was spent with the kids, parents tried to ease their guilt by ramping up the quality time. This really doesn't work, and I agree with Al Franken: "“Parenting is the hardest job you’ll ever love. First and foremost, being a good parent means spending lots of time with your children. I personally hate the phrase ‘quality time.’ Kids don’t want quality time. They want quantity time, big, stinking, lazy, nonproductive quantity time.”
I think people just have different ideas of what "quality time" is.
The definition I've always used is roughly:
If I'm sitting right next to my kid and ignoring them, that's not QT. If I'm sitting right next to my kid and interacting with them, that's QT.
Even if I'm doing household chores, if my kid is watching and I answer questions they have about what I'm doing, that's QT. If I let them help out, that's QT. If I say "go in the other room and watch TV so I can get this chore done" that's not QT.
Some people seem to think if it's not a planned-out highly-structured nutritious, fun and educational activity, it's not QT which is not how I ever interpreted it.
I agree - family trips (even long car rides) can be quality time if everyone is listening to the same songs and singing along together, or listening to a book together and discussing what's going to happen (ok, we're strange) or wasted time as everyone escapes into their own devices.
We go to a lot of sporting events and our rule is that when a ball or puck is in play, no devices - these have been the best way to share quality time with our teens.
Absolutely. I spent time reading a book next to my dad who was reading a different book and enjoyed that. It doesn't count under my definition of QT though.
Watching TV might though, particularly when we talked during the commercials.
Warby really does have a good deal compared to other glasses options (IMO this wasn't true until they developed bricks and mortar stores to fit the glasses properly). If the only thing a new company is selling is that it's not your parents' brand, then failure seems like a matter of if, not when. Generational advertising can't beat a better, more efficient, or lower cost product.
He writes "There seems to be something in getting good at a skill tree that helps in latter life. I’d like to think it is a function of exposure: once you see the competitive meta at the top of one skill tree, you begin looking for it everywhere else."
Two things explain this phenom: 1) you learn how to learn - and if you pay attention you become better at learning, more efficient; 2) you develop the confidence that your time invested will pay off with expertise, so you don't begrudge the investment
Interesting - One of the things we teach is that we don't want our people competing with the slides, so if you want to put up a quote to expand upon it, first you have to read the quote - otherwise, you're talking and people are reading
The number 600 would be the number of expected blind schizophrenics in the US right now. But as people have been looking for them over time, the actual number should be higher.
The origin of the mixed use movement (and the rebirth of cities) is The Death and Life of Great American Cities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_Am...). The upshot is that mixed use is the holy grail. Here, I can't tell is residential mixed in with commercial - that's how you get people out of cars.
It says mixed use - does that means there's commercial and residential in the same space? In my mind that's what makes for a city.
Since the internet places no weight on things like "common knowledge to anyone in the field" or "I took a bunch of classes on the brain in college", here's a random quote from someone at MIT: http://news.mit.edu/1996/visualprocessing
https://www.today.com/news/barack-obama-explains-why-he-ll-n...