This is a great interview, but I’m not sure why the submission’s title was changed. Article is actually titled as follows: > Jonathan Haidt Wants You to Take A

This is a great interview, but I’m not sure why the submission’s title was changed. Article is actually titled as follows: > Jonathan Haidt Wants You to Take Away Your Kid’s Phone The part where Haidt discusses “market failure” for tech companies is interesting and suggests society needs totally different laws to manage big tech (including social media). I also thought this particular answer from Haidt’s interview was interesting, about what may happen to Gen Z: > The brain is literally rewiring, literally in the sense that neurons are seeking each other out. Neurons are fading away if they’re not used, synapses are forming or fading away. That happens very rapidly in the first couple of years of life, then it slows down. But in puberty it speeds up. So puberty is a time of really important rewiring, and traditional societies would give young people some guidance into how you make the transition to adulthood. We don’t do that. We give them an iPhone and an iPad and we say, “Here, we’re going to let you be guided into adulthood by a bunch of random people on the Internet chosen by algorithm for their extremity—that’s how you’re going to rewire your brain.” > So it is possible that there are lasting effects and that Gen Z, for the rest of their lives, will be more anxious and fragile. That is possible—we just don’t know. But the optimistic thing I can say is that there’s a lot they can do to make themselves better quickly. > I teach a course at N.Y.U. Stern called Flourishing. It’s an undergraduate positive-psychology course. And one of the most important things I do with the class is to go through their notifications with them. Two hundred to five hundred a day is typically how many the students get. And I say, “Turn off notifications for everything except for five apps. If you could only keep on five apps, like Uber—you surely want to keep on Uber and Lyft because you need to know, Is the car coming or not? But do you need an update from the New York Times or from The New Yorker or anybody else?”