“I have come to appreciate my own father’s fathering more since becoming a father,” he said. “He always took a bad rap — for teasing us, laying on expectations, instilling questionable ethics, etc. But he had a knack for passing along humor and wisdom and life-hacks (as they’d be called now) and for making sure we knew he was always on our side, all of which I try to do and all of which is not as easy as I’d have thought. So I think it's more like updated than outdated, at least for me.”