Krithika Shankarraman
Throw Out the Parenting Playbook
Inspired by Krithika Shankarraman episode
Krithika's anti-playbook approach to marketing applies perfectly to parenting: your kid didn't read the manual either.
Krithika at OpenAI talks about the DATE framework - Diagnose, Analyze, Take a different path, Experiment. Because there's a playbook for everything in product, but you still have to actually understand YOUR customer.
And look, parenting books will sell you the same lie. "Just follow this framework!" Sure. Except the books were written about someone else's angel-child who probably doesn't exist.
Your kid is a sample size of one. The bedtime routine that worked miracles for your friend's kid? Somehow enrages yours. The snack that calms their chaos agent? Triggers a meltdown in your house. Every parenting "best practice" assumes you have a standard-issue child.
You don't. You have yours. The one currently explaining why they need to wear a Batman costume to preschool on pajama day. There's no playbook for that. You're just diagnosing in real-time, experimenting wildly, and hoping the next path doesn't end in tears. Usually yours.
