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2026-W19 Kara Linse Buckley and Darragh Buckley: Easy Parenting & Meaningful Work

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Christine sits down with husband-and-wife duo Kara Linse Buckley (sports marketing, ex-Senior Advisor, U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee advisor) and Darragh Buckley (CEO at Increase, employee #1 at Stripe), parents of four in Bend, Oregon. They dig into designing a walkable life around two anchoring goals : easy enjoyable parenting and meaningful productive work, including a custom upcoming house move with kids' bedrooms small-by-design to push family into shared spaces. The conversation ranges across the "lawless place" of the school bus, an extra hour of bedtime math as a happiness hack for the eldest, Beast Academy and the Hard Math for Elementary School curriculum, and how the Federal Reserve quietly pulled off a Fedwire format change with no one noticing.

They get into kids learning to code, cursor and Replit unleashing creative explosions (Space Invaders clones, a chemistry-meets-math game), the tension between teaching kids to type vs. voice-driven AI workflows, and the inevitable question of when your child will out-sysadmin you. Plus: an unintentional capitalism unleashing via pesos in a Mexican market, Monopoly variants without sub-$100 settlements, the books making the rounds in their book clubs, and how parenting changes your brain.


Books:

TV

Kids' tech & education

Finance & engineering

Places & community

  • Edge Esmeralda: the popup village in Healdsburg, CA where the eldest demoed his Chem-Mash Lab game
  • Bend, Oregon: where Kara & Darragh have built their home, optimized for walkability

Games

  • Squatter: the Australian Monopoly-adjacent game in Christine's closet
  • Monopoly: no introduction needed!


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