The teen mental health crisis was not caused by reality getting worse around 2012. Their material and physical health improved steadily. To paraphrase Epictetus: "It is not events which disturb teens. It is the device through which they interpret all events."… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… pic.twitter.com/BDbawhqQQW

Trends in mental health problems among US women and girls, 2001 to 2018. It's so obvious that something changed, and we all know what it is. pic.twitter.com/53yz7EyJZE

I was skeptical of the theory that social media makes kids miserable, but did a deep dive into the data and found: *The best randomized experiments show an effect *A massive increase in adolescent mental illness across much of the developed world Thread richardhanania.substack.com/p/how-i-change…

The games we play shape who we become. Is the status game that we're playing on Twitter turning us into the type of people we aspire to be? junglegym.substack.com/p/against-enga…

It’s hard to overstate the difference in social meaning of broadcasting your photos out to whoever follows you and the pre-digital way of getting them printed and having people over for dinner to look at your vacation album/slides.

Hot take: 🔥🔥 Algorithms have no place in the future of social media. 🔥🔥 THREAD: 1/ Marketplaces are judgment aggregators. Algorithms make judgments on your behalf. Thus “algorithm” is just another word for “unfree market.”

Social Media is a hormetic drug: beneficial in low doses, toxic in high doses. The problem is that is that it's inherently designed to be 'engaging' (the Soylicon Valley euphemism for addictive). Thus, you must fast to detox from it: #DopamineFasting 2.0 medium.com/swlh/dopamine-… pic.twitter.com/bWziIuFgW0