Parenting a Sam Bankman-Fried
R eading what Michael Lewis says about the childhood of Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) gave me the shivers. https://www.stockvault.net/data/2012/03/06/129760/preview16.jpg In his description of a child who was so bored with school, I saw my son. The main differences were that (1) we intervened when he was six; (2) I decided against pursuing an academic career to ensure making professor by age 60; and (3) we prayed for wisdom. I cried a lot. O, how I cried. Thankfully, our son appears to be a well-adjusted adult now, because his emotional development finally, in due course, caught up with his intellectual growth. Here's an extract with the focus on the childhood/education of SBF. “Childhood was a funny thing for Sam,” said his father. “He was never comfortable with kids, or with being a kid.” By the time Sam was eight Barbara had given up on the idea that his wants and needs would be anything like other children’s. She remembered the instant that happened. She had been at Stanford for