🔗 Principles for life (Dries Buytaert)

This page started as an email that I sent to my kids in 2013:

Dear Axl and Stan,

I’m writing this e-mail on the plane from Boston to San Francisco. Sadly, I don’t get to spend a lot of time parenting you right now, so I’m writing you this long e-mail instead. It provides a list of things I wish I had known when I was 21.

You are still too young to read, but I hope you will read and re-read this e-mail when you’re older. Keep a copy handy. Needless to say, I’m here to help you in person as well.

I wish I could promise you that life is going to be easy. I can’t. However, I can promise you that it is really worth it, especially if you live by the following principles.

I love you,

Dad