Last week, I shared my thoughts on The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, which examines the impact of social media and smartphones on children and teens. Building on that, today I want to explore two troubling trends tied to the uncontrolled use of social media: the way low-quality content quietly consumes vast amounts of our … Continue reading Protecting Your Time and Safety in a Social Media World
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Book Review: The Anxious Generation
Photo by Ed Ortiz The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt was a great read—slightly boring at times, but the subject is too important to let that stop you from reading it. Haidt doesn’t have the writing touch of Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted and Poverty, By America, but he lays out the facts about the … Continue reading Book Review: The Anxious Generation
On Learning and The Information Environment
While reading Letters from a Stoic by Seneca, specifically the chapter on learning wisdom in old age, I came across the following passage: “You should keep learning as long as you are ignorant—even to the end of your life, if there is anything in the proverb. And the proverb suits the present case as well … Continue reading On Learning and The Information Environment
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