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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

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elsat 3mo ago

🫂

BlackCoffee 3mo ago

Good luck. There's no way I can ever get any work done with children in the house. I get interrupted every 20 seconds minimum. Kids at home = not even trying to do work or I'll just lose my patience.

dadhodl 3mo ago

I totally get that. It was like that for a couple of days for me but I pushed through, now the novelty is over and all that’s left is camaraderie.

It’s probably catalyzed by how we have massively structured our lives around their open time-space though, so they aren’t anxious or rushed in much. (Rural homeschool)

They certainly aren’t starved for my attention , so I appear to have broken out past the wake of interruptions.

The olders really enjoy and respect the “this is a quiet working space” boundary. The youngers come and go and give me hugs, but I do have noise cancelling headphones for sure.

I also lowered my coffee intake to just one cup with food because I was so anxious and 2-3 black.

The biggest revelation for me here was that I had no choice but to make this work, given all other constraints I refuse to let go of for this season of life (lots of kids, homeschool, steady job, etc)

Ian 3mo ago

Not homeschooling yet, but the llms make it possible to code in an environment that would have been less conducive to flow state. And when I do get a full day I get what would have taken a week done in a day because I've already worked out 90% of the problem with the AI.

dadhodl 3mo ago

Exactly! All the necessary monkey work was automated, is just even more fun now.

CKMe 3mo ago

Got a homestead too? If so you’re living the absolute dream

dadhodl 3mo ago

6 acres. Cut my teeth with a family dairy cow and three sheep and eventually cried uncle. We went too hard on the homestead life at first, pared back a ton last year and even more this year ( a summer with an infant ).

I think we know exactly how we can responsibly re-expand next season 😅

elsat 3mo ago

Whats the first baby step you would recommend to ease into homesteading with an animal?

dadhodl 3mo ago

If aiming to ease, there is wisdom in the advice to start with chickens, rabbits for some seasons, then maybe sheep once you’re ready to try a bigger thing.

Habits of housing maintenance, food/water, etc are crucial and a little different for each animal (but also don’t need to be fancy). Not hard or complex, but jobs to be done. Animals do tie you down until you figure out systems and friends that can help free you for a trip.

CKMe 3mo ago

I’m at the sheep stage now. We have 2 girls & a boy. Birthed 4 babies this year. We lost one to a tangle with our fence, that was a sad day.

Think we’re stopping here. I hunt, we have 14.5 acres, work remotely. Only thing that would have me living the dream more would be if I could retire. Still a few years out on that.