When your brother was born I wrote him a letter. I didn’t hold back any insights because after the dramatic, bombshell experience of having our first child, your mother and I were pretty sure he would be our only one… until he wasn’t, and now we have you :) Everything I said to him then and what I want to tell you now applies to you both. 

Christie Lake Kids’ mission is to enrich the lives and prospects of economically disadvantaged children by providing quality year-round community and camp programs to develop physical, social and character skills. CLK believes that all children should have the chance to experience the beauty of the natural world – to swim in a lake, paddle a canoe, sit by a campfire.

You are born during interesting times. In some ways, life on Earth has never been better – we are at the peak of innovation in science and technology, we have instant connectivity across the globe, literacy is on all time high and poverty is at an all time low. But, we still have many problems, and our future has never been more uncertain. You will likely live through many challenging times, and I hope you can contribute to some solutions.

Here are a few documentaries that I enjoyed watching over the last 3 months. All of these are available on Netflix.

The film follows the elections for class monitor in a 3rd grade class of eight-year-old children in the Evergreen Primary School in Wuhan, China. The seemly trivial premise for this film, will leave you introspecting.

“So, what did you think of your safari?”, our guide casually asked me at the end of the trip. Over the 6 days prior to the question, he had taken my now-wife and I around Serengeti and Ngorongoro crater in Tanzania.

That's my grandfather above (second on the left). The title reads "1981 USSR State Prize Winners from Leningrad."