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How to slay things as a parent
Tip one: Stop reading Medium articles on how to slay stuff.
Prior to joining Medium myself, I hadn’t actually come to the website to peruse writing. I’d come here by way of articles posted to Facebook or Twitter, most of which had to do with feminism, racism, Elon Musk (a favorite topic for many of Medium’s featured articles) and one of the most amazing pieces of writing about someone’s mother I think I might have read in the last decade.
When I arrived, however, I realized that there was a wealth of positive thinking and personal growth articles to take advantage of, too. Turns out I could go from zero to sixty almost immediately, just by reading any number of nearly-identical listicles written by millennials who have figured out the formula for rocking life from a thousand dollar Chromebook in a coffee shop in a third world country (my Chromebook cost me $180 and I bought it so I could have something I didn’t mind getting stolen, were I forced to, say, work in a coffee shop in a third world country — but in all seriousness, having traveled the world already, why the heck would anyone want to work when you live in a place that cheap?).
Oh, heck yeah. Life was about to change for me.
Erm…
Nope.
