Aaron Stupple
@astupple
Father. Physician. Optimist. Popper Fan. Bitcoiner. Author - http://thesovereignchild.com
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Nice, but I just worry about her frontal cortex.
My 13yo daughter has unlimited access to screens, and as a result, she is learning to dance and mastering some pretty complex moves. She has also discovered a challenging piano piece by Chopin and is determined to learn it on her own. She constantly creates art projects.. 😀
Stories are crucial, but short stories are poison - they need to be long. 90 minutes is a rough turning point, any shorter begins to damage the frontal cortex which fragments attention. If your kid watches a 3 or 4 hour epic movie, this is terrific for their cortex and their…
Story time is good for kids, humans are story-telling animals. Good movies on a TV or large screen is good screen time. Short videos, watched alone on a touch screen, is bad screen time. It fragments attention I discuss this with People Magazine: people.com/anxious-genera…
I love following along with our @osventuresllc Grantee @arjunkhemani's build-in-public documentary
Check out Conjecture Institute Fellow @arjunkhemani's latest documentary chapter! 👇
I -> LOVE this song👇.
I'm not into shiny suits and fast cars: An anthem for non-coercive living and learning. Lyrics by Serbian rap artist @easst, with prompt engineering by Jake. suno.com/song/3708dc8c-…
There was a young man from Nantucket Who thought that his mind was a bucket. So he went back to school Where they filled it with gruel Until he rebelled saying
Imagine if there were quantum experiments already done by the universe — using cosmological time and energy scales to reveal signatures of quantum gravity & push fundamental physics to its limits? In the latest episode of the Quantum Foundations Podcast, @IyerAditya explains…
Some people, when forced, wind up loving the thing anyway. And many of these people become evangelists for forcing in order to produce love. Trouble is: 1- Forcing can always backfire. 2- Forcing can produce a meager, tokenist engagement just to appease. 3- There is always a…
This blast is one of the many costs of screen alarmism. Is this blast possible if parents and/or kids are afraid of screens? It’s substitute is a cold, sterile, transactional relationship with a loved one.
We are having a blast playing Roblox together this summer.
It’s not that I don’t care how my kids turn out, it’s that a chief worry of mine is whether they will have to kiss annyone’s ass. “Do what you enjoy” is my antidote for “Do what’s approved.”
Games are particularly terrific for kids because their enjoyment indicates they are thriving (deepening their own interests) rather than appeasing adults.
Games are particularly terrific for kids because their enjoyment indicates they are thriving (deepening their own interests) rather than appeasing adults.
Do your kids play Roblox? You should read this explainer, about how the monetization strategies of multi-player games have changed, incentivizing companies to put kids into harmful situations in 8 ways. New at AfterBabel.com afterbabel.com/p/its-not-just…
In free markets, consumers pay providers in accordance with how well those providers solve their problems, and profits go to providers who do it best, and profitable providers get better and better at solving customer problems in a vicious cycle called progress. In healthcare,…
Humans, humans humans humans humans! Without humans, those whales are going extinct anyway.
Would you save 25,000 blue whales or 25,000 humans? Remember that 25,000 would be all the blue whales on earth, choosing the humans means rendering them extinct.