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Don’t Ignore Your Moral Intuition About Phones

Cal Newport

In a recent New Yorker review of Matt Richtel’s new book, How We Grow Up , Molly Fischer effectively summarizes the current debate about the impact phones and social media are having on teens. Fischer focuses, in particular, on Jon Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation , which has, to date, spent 66 weeks on the Times bestseller list. “Haidt points to a selection of statistics across Anglophone and Nordic countries to suggest that rising rates of teen unhappiness are an international tren

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How to Be More Adaptable: Thriving in an Ever-Changing World

Steve Keating

One of the most common excuses for not planning is that “the plans never work out anyway.” When I hear that from someone, I don’t worry about their inability to plan; I worry about their inadequacies when it comes to adapting their plan to a different set of circumstances. Lacking the ability to adapt kills more potential opportunities than the lack of a plan, the lack of funds, or the lack of help.

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