What this person could've take away here was that: - Contrary to what the article states, parenthood in males can sometimes even boost testosterone through external factors. - Or that resitance training and diet is a great way to deal with daily stress.

What instead they took away was that improving oneself for family somehow makes you unfit to be a parent.

A rather dark interpretation. Sincerely hope they are OK and well.

I work full time and even by modern standards I'm what most would call a heavily-involved father. I have an 18month old.

After my daughter was born, due to the amount of stress and lack of sleep I very soon realised I had to return to doing regular resistance training, clean diet and cut other things like drinking alcohol. In order to keep my energy levels sufficiently high and mental health in check.

I now feel much better than I did in years. Albeit still heavily sleep deprived most days. Recent bloodwork shows that my T levels nearly doubled (compared to before becoming a dad) from average to slightly off-the-charts high.

Take it as you will, but for me fatherhood forced me to reevaluate how I spend my time very carefully, forcing me to take care of myself more so I can take care of my family sufficiently too.

As a consultant/contractor I always evangelise simplification and modelling problems from first principles. I jump between companies every 6-12 months, cleaning up after years of complexity-driven development, or outright designing robust systems that anybody (not just the author) can maintain and extend.

This level of honesty helps you build a reputation. I am never short for work. I also bill more than I could ever as a full-time engineer based in Europe.

A toolbelt of small utility-like composables are often easier to maintain and reason about. This results in added explicitness (i.e. less magic, fewer surprises).

Personal experience shows that the immediate efficiency gains of a framework often get diminished in the face of all the hacks people introduce later, just to work around the remaining 10% of cases that the framework did not anticipate or traded-off against.

Please note this is a comment based on personal experience and professional preference.

BOCTAOE.

It proved to be a mild success within the local market. We're making over €1k MRR in our home EU country of 3MM people. It's still very much an Indie business but it's certainly got potential to grow 10-20x from where we are right now if we break into other markets.

As of recent, we rebranded and are ready to go internationally, but need some professional marketing assistance to help us optimise backlinks, SEO, social media presence and the likes.

I'm trying to avoid the term "growth hacking" here, but realistically that's what we need: someone to leverage creative ideas to make us discoverable and known.

We have a modest budget of up to ~€50k to burn through (salary, ad spend, etc.) and are open to offering equity to who I suppose would become our Chief Marketing Officer.

Where do we look? Should we focus on hiring a full-time marketing employee? A contractor/freelancer? Perhaps agencies are better ROI? If so, any specific recommendations would be massively appreciated.

Thanks!

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