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Terms and conditions apply. Don't let them steal this. Any public figure will tell you,

you shouldn't read any of the criticisms or bad press about yourself, and you definitely shouldn't

try to respond to all of it. It will cripple you. You'll never press about yourself, and you definitely shouldn't try to respond

to all of it. It will cripple you. You'll never get anything done, and it will only make things

worse. Every leader, every creative, every maker and builder and doer only has a finite amount of

energy. How will they spend it? Fighting battles with haters or making good stuff. Now, not every parent is a public figure,

but each of us are constrained by the same amount of finite energy. And it could be argued that

in a world of social media, we do have a presence on platforms with the potential to expose us

to endless amounts of people who disagree or dislike us. The question is, are you getting bogged down by this,

or do you ignore it? Because every pointless argument you get into, every comment you reply to,

every hot take you feel inclined to rate, is taking you from something else, namely your children.

It's like that famous cartoon, Are you coming to bed? A voice asks. I can't. This is important, they reply, furiously typing on a computer. Someone is wrong on the internet. Your kids want to play, but apparently duty calls. You have to tell this total stranger why Tom Brady is overrated. You have to clap back to another Maga Kook. You have to

see how many likes or how few your latest post did. Meanwhile, you don't see that your pocket is being

picked, that you've been conned. The only beneficiary is the platform and they're advertisers.

You can't see that you yourself are stealing that time from your family,

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