Kids are an enormous productivity drain. I have a todo list that only seems to grow, no matter how much I manage to get done. There just aren’t enough hours in the day. Case in point: It’s been 3 weeks since I made a blog entry. Any free moment I manage to squeeze in (usually in the car or the bathroom), my mind goes blank and I drift into the daddy fog. You know, that feeling you get in your car when you can’t remember the last 10 minutes.
All great inventions and ideas came from people before they had kids. Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Bill Gates, Henry Ford. There’s no way they could have come up with the light bulb and automobile otherwise. The most productive countries, measured by GDP, are those with the lowest birth rates. Ok, I’m just guessing at that one, but it wouldn’t surprise me…