Apologies for the dearth of recent posts. I’m working a lot on other projects in my off time. For now, I am going to suggest reading the essay Lies We Tell Kids by Paul Graham. Plenty of things to think about, you probably won’t agree with them all, but that’s why we read, yes? Plenty of pithy snippets, but I’ll highlight this one:

If parents told their kids the truth about sex and drugs, it would be: the reason you should avoid these things is that you have lousy judgement. People with twice your experience still get burned by them. But this may be one of those cases where the truth wouldn’t be convincing, because one of the symptoms of bad judgement is believing you have good judgement. When you’re too weak to lift something, you can tell, but when you’re making a decision impetuously, you’re all the more sure of it.

Go read it.