Cut out the stuff you don’t value, the amount of stuff you can do when you don’t own a TV and never visit news or social media sites[1] is astounding.

The downside is your reply to any questions like “have you seen <popular show>?” will perpetually be blank stare, shrug

[1] 1 exception - a ruthlessly curated rss feed reader, and this site - although i’m experimenting with using this site via a “best of” aggregation feed. For all popular stories here there are a 2nd wave of thoughtful posters who arrive to a thread a day or 2 late. I’m thinking they are also filtering similarly but i have never asked.

One cannot. One or more of those things is suffering, and I hope it's not his kids, though people like this usually delegate childcare to their spouse or paid care.

People I know that do this usually offload kids to kindergarten, hire nanny or let SO handle them. Or combination of above.