An app can be a home-cooked meal

Gil and his wife, Gaye, have a lovely tradition. Thursday nights, everyone in the family can order whatever they want for dinner and Gaye will cook it. One daughter wants hot dogs? Fine. Another wants chocolate chip pancakes? No problem. I make a habit of stopping by Gil’s house on Thursdays, eating off everyone’s plates. Before long I’m eating at

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Entering his world

I’m very ambitious and try to do a lot with my life. But when I’m with him, I stop everything else. Phone off. Computer off.

I try to see things through his eyes — to put myself into his mind. When he gets upset, I try to remember what it was like to be his age and relate at that level.

When he makes up stories, I enter his inven... See more

nurturing my idea Library happened in tools that were single player and the feeling of laboring away in these tools that were you know that that nobody would ever see that my children wouldn't get to see that weren't able to kind of give a a Serendipity or a useful Trail to somebody else wouldn't collide with other people's brains or thoughts um th

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