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Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
Barbara Sarnecka, an associate professor of cognitive sciences at the University of California, Irvine, told Lenore that today “adults are saying: ‘Here’s the environment. I’ve already mapped it. Stop exploring.’ But that’s the opposite of what childhood is.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
The intrusion of smartphones and social media are not the only changes that have deformed childhood. There’s an important backstory, beginning as long ago as the 1980s, when we started systematically depriving children and adolescents of freedom, unsupervised play, responsibility, and opportunities for risk taking, all of which promote competence,
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
Inevitably, he will learn—from us, from school, from the internet, from the world—just how terrible people are, and have been.
Jessi Klein • I'll Show Myself Out
- Embrace boring and single-purpose technology.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Baby Mozart
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
don’t want my children to grow up to be the kind of people who eat rice with a knife.’