2026-06-06
The school keeps calling about my kid — so I built a behavior incident log for parents
When the school keeps calling, six months in your memory is mush — who was that kid, what happened, did I apologize to that parent? TroubleNote is a parent-only behavior incident log, organized by friend, by date, by place. No advice. Just lays it out. And when the data shows your kid is actually hitting less than last year, you breathe a little.
2026-07-02
Survivorship bias in parenting — I was only looking at the planes that made it back
Survivorship bias in parenting: Instagram wins, the mom who has it figured out, my kid's 'I'm fine' — all survivor data. And regression to the mean makes yelling look like it works. So I put my kid's days on a moving-average chart. That app is GrowthTrend.
2026-06-22
The paradox of choice in parenting — why "pick whatever you want" froze my kid
Closet open, kid frozen for three minutes. "Just pick something." Iyengar & Lepper's 2000 jam study (24 options vs 6) explains it. Why narrowing choices got him moving — and why the same logic runs through our Todo apps and the way I scope projects at work.
2026-05-18
Letting kids fail: I was grabbing his failures before he could feel them
7:14 AM. Backpack on, homework still on the counter. Almost said 'grab it' — caught myself. Letting kids fail on purpose — productive failure (Kapur 2008) — and the 3-second pause we're trying at home.