Dad's the Boy

Two years ago my 5-year-old was a walking argument machine. Dinner? War. Bedtime? War. Everything? War. I was done arguing and repeating myself. So I stole Elon’s first-principles thinking and paired it with pure FAFO parenting — “Fuck Around and Find Out.” No lectures. No threats. Just: Break it to the simplest truth → run the experiment → laugh at the explosion → let reality teach. The result? A...

Rockets don’t fly straight. Not even close. A Saturn V is off-course 97% of the time — spending almost its entire journey making tiny corrections. In this episode of Dads The Boy, Dhawal shares how the same principle applies to parenting. Your kid is the rocket. You are Mission Control. Through hundreds of small, consistent touchpoints — not one big lecture — you help them course-correct and build...

In the very first episode of Dads The Boy, Dhawal shares the raw, real story of teaching his son Evaan one of the most powerful ideas from the Bhagavad Gita — equanimity in action. After years of watching Evaan struggle with losses on the racetrack, Dhawal breaks down a simple three-year progression that actually worked: Year 1: Just show up Year 2: Do your duty Year 3: Stay equanimous — perform w...