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Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.

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  Turkey's sudden fertility collapse after 2013 was caused by a collapse in marriage, not by married couples choosing fewer children.

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  It just is marriage. Turkish fertility started falling super fast after 2013 because Turkish marriage rates started falling super fast after 2013.

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Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, which he started in 2011 while studying product design at Stanford.

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  The value of a social network is in connecting you to the handful of people you care most about, not in how many people it connects.

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  what really mattered was connecting you to the right people. And so, if you could just connect someone not to all their friends, but to their best friend, to their partner, to their spouse, the people that they cared most about in the world, that that that's where the majority of the value is in the network.

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Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

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  Francie

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  Fancy in Brooklyn: Francie is my favorite restaurant in Brooklyn (actually, all of NYC). I also die for Celestine, where I got married!

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Parents have an obligation to talk up having children, because the case against is made a thousand times louder than the case for.

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  I think we need to correct that ratio somewhat by some testimony of just how God damn amazing it is to literally create life

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  those of us who've chosen to do the traditional thing to get married and to have children have an obligation to kind of talk it up a little bit, which would've seen ridiculous again 50 years ago that you'd have to talk up something so fundamental of that.

Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  Conversational interfaces get to the first seventy percent quickly and are bad at iteration; the future is chat married to traditional direct-manipulation controls.

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  Conversational UIs are great at quickly getting to the first 70%, but suck at offering easy controls over narrower areas for iteration.

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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

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  Marriage survives in South Asia because families arrange it and divorce is taboo, not because men and women mix more freely there.

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  Thus, even if cross-gender friendships are few and far between, South Asian families still consolidate and preserve nuptials.

  Why are Marriage & Fertility Plummeting in MENA?ggd.world

Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

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  Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average, and have more of them.

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  If you're a guy in your early 20's, get married and have kids. Go into debt if you have to.

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  Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average (and have more kids than the current average). Doing this successfully (without screwing it up with selfish pride) will make the world better and make them happier than anything else they’re doing.

Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

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  Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average, and have more of them.

  Their words

  Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average (and have more kids than the current average). Doing this successfully (without screwing it up with selfish pride) will make the world better and make them happier than anything else they’re doing.

  @kentcdodds on Xx.com

Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  An Unfinished Love Story

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  Whether you already know a lot about the ’60s or you’re just dipping your toe into those waters, whether you want a deep dive into the art of political writing or a charming story about a married couple who adored each other, you’ll get it from An Unfinished Love Story.

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