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"I’ve always thought that it was a columnist’s duty to generate discussion on the most hot-button issues. To avoid such topics was to leave the reader shortchanged. I guess in the end, I just didn’t feel like I could do my job properly anymore." -@Matt_Calkins on resigning from
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After 11 years as a sports columnist at the Seattle Times, I have decided to resign. It was entirely my choice, and it was not an easy one. The impetus was the Times declining to run a column I wrote from the perspective of two female student athletes who were opposed to
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Australia, the UK, and France have banned teens from social media, and other countries are ready to follow. @timrequarth argues these restrictions just let parents and teachers off the hook: "For a kid whose physical range ends at the street corner, social media may be the only
What a Teen Social Media Ban Overlooks
From persuasion.community
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"It is good and useful to think of alcohol as a tasty mild poison that humans have been honed by evolution to handle in small doses, because from a biochemical and anthropological standpoint, that is precisely what alcohol is." @DKThomp on the social bonds we get from social
Is This the End of Booze?
From derekthompson.org
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“In each case, the well-intended measure became a target, people optimized for it, and unintended consequences followed.” Sahil Bloom on the pitfalls of optimization, and how to make sure you're not breeding cobras instead of killing them: sahilbloom.substack.com/p/the-cobra-ef…
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"Reading at length is a physical and mental skill, built by practice and weakened by neglect," writes librarian Hana Lee Goldin. In this post, she offers a 30-day protocol to rebuild your capacity to read deeply for long stretches of time: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/a-30-day-pro…