Adam Robinson
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So it requires you to, you know, it just helps you pay attention to the actual device. and participate in the environment that you're in, right? So that's the application for a comedy show. You could see the application for movies and theaters. Education. I just read this book called The Anxious Generation, which I would highly recommend reading.
So it requires you to, you know, it just helps you pay attention to the actual device. and participate in the environment that you're in, right? So that's the application for a comedy show. You could see the application for movies and theaters. Education. I just read this book called The Anxious Generation, which I would highly recommend reading.
It's by the guy who wrote The Coddling of the American Mind. These cell phones are just terrible for middle schoolers. Everybody's getting them earlier and earlier. My buddy runs a charter school here in Austin. I'm like, is there a chance that by the time my two-year-old is in middle school, the parents will have agreed to have not given them smartphones. He's like, no shot.
It's by the guy who wrote The Coddling of the American Mind. These cell phones are just terrible for middle schoolers. Everybody's getting them earlier and earlier. My buddy runs a charter school here in Austin. I'm like, is there a chance that by the time my two-year-old is in middle school, the parents will have agreed to have not given them smartphones. He's like, no shot.
It's by the guy who wrote The Coddling of the American Mind. These cell phones are just terrible for middle schoolers. Everybody's getting them earlier and earlier. My buddy runs a charter school here in Austin. I'm like, is there a chance that by the time my two-year-old is in middle school, the parents will have agreed to have not given them smartphones. He's like, no shot.
There's always one that will. Because we're getting to the point where everybody had smartphones when they were young who are having kids now. So anyway, that's what it is. It's this contraption that basically prevents you from accessing your phone, which is the greatest drug on earth. And here's where I think the potential for innovation is.
There's always one that will. Because we're getting to the point where everybody had smartphones when they were young who are having kids now. So anyway, that's what it is. It's this contraption that basically prevents you from accessing your phone, which is the greatest drug on earth. And here's where I think the potential for innovation is.
There's always one that will. Because we're getting to the point where everybody had smartphones when they were young who are having kids now. So anyway, that's what it is. It's this contraption that basically prevents you from accessing your phone, which is the greatest drug on earth. And here's where I think the potential for innovation is.
This device, the Yonder pouch, which I'm sure is just growing exponentially, right? I don't know, but like... I just have this incredibly high level of conviction that some sort of locking phones away is going to be a part of kids' futures, you know, and in a lot of other environments too. The pouch works in one way. It's a very, you know, kind of 20th century device, if you want to call it that.
This device, the Yonder pouch, which I'm sure is just growing exponentially, right? I don't know, but like... I just have this incredibly high level of conviction that some sort of locking phones away is going to be a part of kids' futures, you know, and in a lot of other environments too. The pouch works in one way. It's a very, you know, kind of 20th century device, if you want to call it that.
This device, the Yonder pouch, which I'm sure is just growing exponentially, right? I don't know, but like... I just have this incredibly high level of conviction that some sort of locking phones away is going to be a part of kids' futures, you know, and in a lot of other environments too. The pouch works in one way. It's a very, you know, kind of 20th century device, if you want to call it that.
It's very not tech. It's just like, it kind of like works like the theft things in retail stores. You touch it to that device, it locks. You touch it again, it unlocks, right? Like, if you have a 2000 person high school, the practicality of that is not really great. I think there's like, kind of like what Elon did to the car.
It's very not tech. It's just like, it kind of like works like the theft things in retail stores. You touch it to that device, it locks. You touch it again, it unlocks, right? Like, if you have a 2000 person high school, the practicality of that is not really great. I think there's like, kind of like what Elon did to the car.
It's very not tech. It's just like, it kind of like works like the theft things in retail stores. You touch it to that device, it locks. You touch it again, it unlocks, right? Like, if you have a 2000 person high school, the practicality of that is not really great. I think there's like, kind of like what Elon did to the car.
There's a huge opportunity to like identify an elegant feature set around this car.
There's a huge opportunity to like identify an elegant feature set around this car.
There's a huge opportunity to like identify an elegant feature set around this car.
pouch that probably is not that much more expensive than the just what they're doing right now that just makes it work a lot better like oh it charges your phone while it's in there or you know it uh like uh the the principal of the entire school when the bell goes off hits unlock and all the kids can like get into their phones without literally queuing up you know for a half hour to walk out of the building to like tap their device on this thing
pouch that probably is not that much more expensive than the just what they're doing right now that just makes it work a lot better like oh it charges your phone while it's in there or you know it uh like uh the the principal of the entire school when the bell goes off hits unlock and all the kids can like get into their phones without literally queuing up you know for a half hour to walk out of the building to like tap their device on this thing
pouch that probably is not that much more expensive than the just what they're doing right now that just makes it work a lot better like oh it charges your phone while it's in there or you know it uh like uh the the principal of the entire school when the bell goes off hits unlock and all the kids can like get into their phones without literally queuing up you know for a half hour to walk out of the building to like tap their device on this thing