HeyJaredHow to Human
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Less Phone. More Childhood. (opens the original)
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There is a kid at the beginning of a paper I recently coauthored who comes home from school, goes to his bedroom, and spends the next four hours on his phone.It’s both a common picture and an unpleasant one. I know. I’m a parent. I say all the things: Put the phone down. Go outside. Find something to do. You cannot possibly need to be on that thing for four hours.But this is the problem. Go outside and do what exactly?For most kids, there is no park in walking distance. Even if there were, <a hr
How to Human: Learn to Make Something out of Nothing (opens the original)
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Something out of nothingDuring graduate school, my then-boyfriend’s mother used to visit and make entire meals out of what he thought was an empty pantry. It bordered on miraculous. As an adult, I’ve acquired that skill myself, and making something delicious out of the ingredients I have on hand is one of my favorite challenges (You get excited about the weirdest things, is my kids’ response.)With overnight delivery from Amazon and Doordash and Instacart, we’re much more likely to undertake any
Politics is no place for tribalism (opens the original)
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I recently wrote about the psychological motivations driving the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in USA Today. Those motivations aren’t limited to Democrats, though. We talk about tribalism in politics, it takes far more than 700 words to understand tribal logic, what it costs us, and how we can change it. We talk about political tribalism without understanding why humans formed tribes in the first place. Once you understand what tribes are for, it becomes a lot clearer w
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