I was down the Aaron Swartz rabbit-hole once again, and it made me notice how some of the interesting people are essentially the same kind in both childhood and adulthood.

In childhood, they do serious things and work with passion and think about things as if they were adults, and in adulthood too seem to be unconcerned by things most adults take too much seriously.

In other words, although their experience and worldview changes as they grow older, but an essential attitude of theirs remain the same. There’s some lightness in children that doesn’t necessarily need to go away as you become an adult. On the other hand children too can do serious work and think about important things. It’s not an adult chore to do but a very essential human experience that doesn’t need to be delayed unnecessarily.

This isn’t how most people think.