As a Christian, I am called to share my wealth with neighbors in need. She’s running the local 4-H meeting today while I’m at home with the youngest two. Truly the jewel of my crown. (Proverbs 12:4) #dadstr How has your wife brought Christ and you glory today?

Update on moving back home to work near kids: The second grader can do math sitting next to the 5 month old. Next to me. Holy shit this is the exact answer to all of the dread we had about how to scale our homeschool. It was under my nose the whole time!

I got a tiny rural office building to get away from my homeschoolers several years ago. Coding means holding a ton of fragile context in my head and the little interruptions here and there were truly destructive. However, I've recently started working from home again and I realized the job is completely different now. LLMs hold the fragile context, I just hold pointers to the architecture in my head. It's 100x easier to drop in and out of flow state. So I'm thinking about moving the office back home. The school-age kids get to do their work by daddy while he works. It certainly eases the weight of my wife, the teacher, who is also exclusively nursing a baby (no bottles for us, that's a different thread). Her job will only get harder in the years to come. I kind of can't believe I'd move back home.... my precious little space with the bookshelves and desk and vibe. My little work sanctum, my "territory". Screw it. Give me the messy papers, the school books, the little faces, the break moments to teach basic math and science. I'm running back as fast as I can now that I realize it's possible now. This homeschool is going to scale so well. Is this dying to self and living #ToChristAlone in my journey? #dadstr #dadstrong

I've sleep trained all prior kids at 4-5 months old. This 5th baby smiles so much and I'm a completely different man with a lot more freedom... I don't have it in me yet. Might just bring him into bed for a few weeks. (Could totally change my mind in a week) I'll do a note on sleep training if someone asks for it.

He lived in Christ, and his death is gain. Philippians 1:21

je suis Charlie Except I’m not, I’m a fuckin coward laying low compared to him.

Checking my nostr feeds after my first code review session on my new @daylightco outside in the sun and… I’m gonna go back outside now. I might just be outside the rest of this reset.

Look with 5 kids 9 and under homeschooled by mom, that means I am the school custodian. This is one of the greatest #wifehacks There’s no other way but to love them and their messes. It’s a relatively short season of life. I’m certainly not going to give them away to other teachers or caregivers… or live in filth. So here’s how I scaled it: 1. Heavy duty grabber arm thing from home improvement store so I don’t have to bend over a thousand times 2. Speed run picking everything up with grabber and chucking it onto couch or table, one pile per room 3. Tell kids to process “sort pile”, this is psychologically far easier for them than picking up and sorting. Even the 3 year old can pull his toys out and put them in basket. 4. Headphones in + podcast/book on. 5. Bissel Zing vacuum the hardwood floors, far quicker than sweeping and better at corners. (Kids still working sort piles) 6. Once a week the Tineco vacuum/mop combo to clean the floors of grime, after a quick dribble of water on any odd spots to let them break up as I mop The routine takes 20 minutes, is done every other day on average. My oldest kids are eager to do the vacuuming now. I haven’t allowed that yet because I know they’ll miss crumbs that I don’t, but soon enough I’ll ease them into it. #dadhacks

Put the dish cabinet right next to the dishwasher on the ground level. Now even the littles can help unload dishes. The simplest of #dadhacks

Fewer reps and heavier weights was the advice I needed when I was younger. It makes all the difference in the world for a man. Makes it dopaminergic. #dadhacks I was a stick at 18 years old. Computer kid. I still would be if I hadn’t been taught this one key thing. Now I’m just normal/healthy.

With so many young kids in the house, I must demand total obedience as a daily discipline of #dadhacks. There simply isn’t wiggle room. With that I also give lots of patience, encouragement, and grace, pointing them #ToChristAlone along the way. But the posture I have to take is very much the opposite of “gentle parenting” techniques that coddle children. You simply can’t scale a family that way. And you bet when the children are orderly enough and you are loving enough, your wife will want more of them. 1 Timothy 3:4–5 (ESV) “He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church?” It’s good to demand obedience. And good to give grace. Hold the line, fathers. As the Father holds the line on us. #dadhacks

Thinking about getting a @daylightco because I read a lot in Logos - it’s why I got an iPad mini originally but that eye fatigue is real

For 14 years I’ve been paying off student loans on a CS degree I didn’t finish and my wife’s private school arts degree she never used. We both had $120k each. Yes my income grew, but I refinanced to minimize payments and stacked sats instead. This week we rotated out just enough to cover the 60k that was left and eliminate all debts (except 2.25% mortgage) I am a now a free man. Thank God for #Bitcoin

Take a day off and go to the fair. The memories last a lifetime and it’s a serious time sovereignty flex to be able to go on a weekday when there are no lines. People look at me like I’m nuts there with so many young kids. “You’re so brave” one grandma said to me. It’s confusing because these are the fun years. It’s pure magic for the littles. #dadhacks

Spotted at the #MinnesotaStateFair One lone orange koi in the tank with the river fish by the DNR building.

When they start throwing major fits, don’t stop moving until they sleep. #dadhacks Always prioritize sleep at the #minnesotastatefair

Take your kids to water #dadhacks

The main reason I came back to Christianity after eight years of atheism is because of two things: Bitcoin and my children. For years I searched for a framework to raise my kids in. I tried stoicism, new ageism, agnosticism, and atheism. All of it left me dissatisfied. All of it felt like handing my children a bankrupt inheritance. Bitcoin changed me. It lowered my time preference—suddenly I was thinking about the future, my legacy, and my children. That forced me to ask deeper questions. And when I searched for answers, I kept running into Christ. My testimony feels simple: I looked everywhere else, but only Christianity gave me a model of reality that actually worked. Creation, sin, death, resurrection—Christianity explains not only success and failure, but the countless side effects and nuances of this broken world. And then you look at the Bible itself—how it came to be over centuries, organically, with the same markers that life itself has. You’ve probably seen the chart of inter-testament references. My old atheist mind said, “That’s circular reasoning.” Yet it’s the same kind of “circular reasoning” that underpins Bitcoin’s very value. Both are rooted in truth, in something beyond the self. Bitcoin pointed me to the long game. Christ showed me the eternal one.

Both my boss and my neighbor who is a financial advisor acted surprised when I told them I was a bitcoiner and not a shitcoiner. Surprised because it had not crossed their mind to differentiate the two. In 2025

Billionaire cringe posting his tech that makes anime bikini babe pictures dance was not on my bingo card for 2025, and yet it totally tracks.