The movement to end phone-based childhood has taken off.

A PERSONAL SHARE

I have one subscriber who reads a single chapter of my book every week, than emails me every Sunday morning with his feedback.

He's 75, and has no idea how to use the Substack app. He will never see this note.

It makes my entire week when I get his email. He is a wonderful soul, funny and lovely, and he keeps me moving forward.

How do I even repay that?

The ADHD urge to be too overwhelmed to start and too guilty to relax so we sit frozen in a purgatory of self-punishment, dissociating into the void until the day is over

(I’m publishing a post about why this happens + some ways to manage it tomorrow morning :)

Imagine if social media closed everyday at 5pm like a shop;

We would all be forced to meet up and speak to each other in real life, to be present with our families, to go outside, to create something new or to read, or to simply just be with ourselves.

A female fencer has refused to compete against a biological man in a tournament at the University of Maryland. She took the knee and laid down her sword. The judges disqualified her. She is a true champion.