Meet the Most Brilliant Couple in Town
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- When I say it’s annoying that he can do so many things well, he asks me if I know the story about the hedgehog and the fox. “The fox has many ideas, but the hedgehog has one big idea,” he says impishly. “I seem to be a hedgehog disguised as a fox.” (View Highlight)
- When Sarah and Siddhartha’s second daughter, Aria, was born in 2010, they applied their creative energies to the delicate balancing of two very demanding careers and a growing family. “You’ve got to begin with the idea of radical equality—fifty-fifty,” Siddhartha says. “If you don’t, you’ve already lost.” (View Highlight)
- They’re up at 6:30 every morning to put Aria on the school bus, and Siddhartha drives Leela to her downtown school, circles back to take Sarah to her studio, then drives up to Columbia. Their social schedule spans several worlds—art, science, medicine, literature—and they are in great demand as a couple. People respond to Siddhartha’s impulsive intensity—he’s a demon Scrabble player—and to Sarah’s more free-spirited humor. (View Highlight)
- One way to outwit chaos is a radical elimination of the nonessential. Siddhartha has mastered the two-word email for answering the countless invitations: “Apologies, unable.” “You can’t get lost in the everyday details,” Sarah says. “Sid and I are both totally like that, which can be not good with things like parking tickets. Sure, things are falling through the cracks all the time, but that doesn’t matter. The big things matter.” They discuss each other’s work. She reads his manuscripts, and he sees everything she’s doing in the studio. (View Highlight)
Meet the Most Brilliant Couple in Town
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Highlights
- When I say it’s annoying that he can do so many things well, he asks me if I know the story about the hedgehog and the fox. “The fox has many ideas, but the hedgehog has one big idea,” he says impishly. “I seem to be a hedgehog disguised as a fox.” (View Highlight)
- When Sarah and Siddhartha’s second daughter, Aria, was born in 2010, they applied their creative energies to the delicate balancing of two very demanding careers and a growing family. “You’ve got to begin with the idea of radical equality—fifty-fifty,” Siddhartha says. “If you don’t, you’ve already lost.” (View Highlight)
- They’re up at 6:30 every morning to put Aria on the school bus, and Siddhartha drives Leela to her downtown school, circles back to take Sarah to her studio, then drives up to Columbia. Their social schedule spans several worlds—art, science, medicine, literature—and they are in great demand as a couple. People respond to Siddhartha’s impulsive intensity—he’s a demon Scrabble player—and to Sarah’s more free-spirited humor. (View Highlight)
- One way to outwit chaos is a radical elimination of the nonessential. Siddhartha has mastered the two-word email for answering the countless invitations: “Apologies, unable.” “You can’t get lost in the everyday details,” Sarah says. “Sid and I are both totally like that, which can be not good with things like parking tickets. Sure, things are falling through the cracks all the time, but that doesn’t matter. The big things matter.” They discuss each other’s work. She reads his manuscripts, and he sees everything she’s doing in the studio. (View Highlight)