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Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good
- WarOnPrivacy 1y agohttps://archive.md/eBBRh https://archive.md/eBBRh
- WarOnPrivacy 1y agoI have a 2 hour window after I wake up, to do the kind of thinking that leads to persistently useful conclusions. The article calls out the phone but mine phone often provides inspiration (caveat: curated use of less than a half hour). The real barriers to this deep thought are weekday work schedules; they have me out the door shortly after waking up. (FTR, insomnia says NO to waking 2hrs earlier).
- WarOnPrivacy 1y agoResearch indicates that kids who are exposed to more than two hours a day of recreational screen time ... A couple of thoughts. The klaxons about kids+phones+harms are always louder than the researchers who come along later and look at the same data with a less narrow lens. Over and over and over we find that phones are not the demon that is portrayed.¹ And there are much better reasons for youth mental health issues. In the last 60 years we have wholly eradicated the adult-free time and spaces where kids learned their most critical social and problem solving skills. Instead, we permanently trap kids in a series of adult-curated, adult-curated boxes. If our goal was to ruin youth mental health, this is about as pervasive a method as we could orchestrate. Conversely, phones are often how youth cope with this crippling, disastrous loss. ¹ https://www.npr.org/2019/08/27/754362629/the-scientific-debate-over-teens-screens-and-mental-health https://www.npr.org/2019/08/27/754362629/the-scientific-deba...