Can you tell me more about reading to your wife? Is she listening intently, or like falling asleep? or is she doing something and listening in the background? (knitting / on her phone)
Not the OP, but my partner and his wife have done this for years.
I was inspired, and I did a variation of it with a partner at one point. It was really nice. Feels kinda like a synthetic version of an engaging conversation with someone you care about, but perhaps with words you can't muster yourselves at that time of the day. If you've chosen the book together, it's guaranteed to be the right thing between you. It's nice to feel like you're hearing or learning something interesting from the person you care about, even when one of you perhaps don't have the conversation or the story in you. (I have a high appetite for connecting over ideas, but sometimes people I care about can run out of capacity before me, so it feels like a hack for my relationships.)
I imagine swapping reader-listener roles is another variation.
A bit of intent listening and a bit of passing out, depending on the mood and day. I have reread many pages due to her passing out without me noticing.
I also read to my youngest perhaps 5 days per week, and used to read to his two older brothers for many years. I’m realizing I spend a lot of time reading to people. They definitely fall asleep quite often.
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One of my initial prompts mentioned graph databases as an example of a scalable system, so I wanted to ask it about the design properties that make it so. I figured that because it was a book about designing systems, it could give me an outline of how a graph database works in practice.
It's pretty annoying how the site erases your prompt once you receive your output. By the time it finishes loading I've half forgotten what my original question was.
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