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Jonathan Haidt

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Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

So that has to stop. And that's primarily happening on Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

So that has to stop. And that's primarily happening on Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

Yeah, no, that's right. Because those three companies are being sued by a lot of attorneys general, a lot of parents with dead kids. So a lot has come out from their own internal deliberations. And we know that those three companies, their employees have come to them and said, hey, we got problems. And then management says like, no, that solution would reduce engagement. Don't do it.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

Yeah, no, that's right. Because those three companies are being sued by a lot of attorneys general, a lot of parents with dead kids. So a lot has come out from their own internal deliberations. And we know that those three companies, their employees have come to them and said, hey, we got problems. And then management says like, no, that solution would reduce engagement. Don't do it.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

Yeah, no, that's right. Because those three companies are being sued by a lot of attorneys general, a lot of parents with dead kids. So a lot has come out from their own internal deliberations. And we know that those three companies, their employees have come to them and said, hey, we got problems. And then management says like, no, that solution would reduce engagement. Don't do it.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

We can't do it. So those three companies have shown that they're very resistant to reform to protect kids. They talk a good game. They say, oh, we're doing this. Oh, we're doing that. Oh, we hired a thousand more content. But the problem isn't so much the content, the content moderation. The problem is the design.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

We can't do it. So those three companies have shown that they're very resistant to reform to protect kids. They talk a good game. They say, oh, we're doing this. Oh, we're doing that. Oh, we hired a thousand more content. But the problem isn't so much the content, the content moderation. The problem is the design.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

We can't do it. So those three companies have shown that they're very resistant to reform to protect kids. They talk a good game. They say, oh, we're doing this. Oh, we're doing that. Oh, we hired a thousand more content. But the problem isn't so much the content, the content moderation. The problem is the design.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

These things are designed to attract children and keep them on and take their childhood and break their attention into little tiny bits. It doesn't matter if all the content is nice. It's still going to do that.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

These things are designed to attract children and keep them on and take their childhood and break their attention into little tiny bits. It doesn't matter if all the content is nice. It's still going to do that.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

These things are designed to attract children and keep them on and take their childhood and break their attention into little tiny bits. It doesn't matter if all the content is nice. It's still going to do that.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

Let Grow, yes. So I do have to go, but thanks for giving me this opportunity to lay out where you can go for more information. So the central site for information is anxiousgeneration.com. That's the website for the book. We've got a huge number of resources. Also, my sub stack is afterbabel.com, B-A-B-E-L, afterbabel.com. That's where we put out our research articles.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

Let Grow, yes. So I do have to go, but thanks for giving me this opportunity to lay out where you can go for more information. So the central site for information is anxiousgeneration.com. That's the website for the book. We've got a huge number of resources. Also, my sub stack is afterbabel.com, B-A-B-E-L, afterbabel.com. That's where we put out our research articles.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

Let Grow, yes. So I do have to go, but thanks for giving me this opportunity to lay out where you can go for more information. So the central site for information is anxiousgeneration.com. That's the website for the book. We've got a huge number of resources. Also, my sub stack is afterbabel.com, B-A-B-E-L, afterbabel.com. That's where we put out our research articles.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

We have all kinds of great writers on there. So parents, teachers, please go to afterbabel.com. It's free. You don't have to pay any money. And then we have a special relationship with Let Grow. Go to letgrow.org, a wonderful organization. started, well, really, a couple of us said to Lenore Skenazy, hey, you need to up your game. The country needs you.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

We have all kinds of great writers on there. So parents, teachers, please go to afterbabel.com. It's free. You don't have to pay any money. And then we have a special relationship with Let Grow. Go to letgrow.org, a wonderful organization. started, well, really, a couple of us said to Lenore Skenazy, hey, you need to up your game. The country needs you.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

We have all kinds of great writers on there. So parents, teachers, please go to afterbabel.com. It's free. You don't have to pay any money. And then we have a special relationship with Let Grow. Go to letgrow.org, a wonderful organization. started, well, really, a couple of us said to Lenore Skenazy, hey, you need to up your game. The country needs you.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

And so we just made her more effective by giving her an organization rather than just being an author with a book. And Let Grow, we have a couple of simple programs. They're so powerful. The Let Grow experience, schools do it. It's transformative. You just tell the kids, go home, pick something you think you can do by yourself without your parents, but with your parents' permission.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

And so we just made her more effective by giving her an organization rather than just being an author with a book. And Let Grow, we have a couple of simple programs. They're so powerful. The Let Grow experience, schools do it. It's transformative. You just tell the kids, go home, pick something you think you can do by yourself without your parents, but with your parents' permission.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 447: Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones and the Anxious Generation - What Parents Need to Know

And so we just made her more effective by giving her an organization rather than just being an author with a book. And Let Grow, we have a couple of simple programs. They're so powerful. The Let Grow experience, schools do it. It's transformative. You just tell the kids, go home, pick something you think you can do by yourself without your parents, but with your parents' permission.