Writer from Oklahoma focused on fiction, cultural criticism, and poetry. Words @plough @realclearbooks, @thedispatch, etc. PhD scholar-in-training @okstatepeterbilesauthor.com Oklahoma State University Joined November 2023
I often hear the claim that smartphones and social media are good for kids because they are an outlet for creativity. There is never a citation of research.
I think the opposite is true: creativity needs deep work, and is hampered by constant distraction:
I often hear the claim that smartphones and social media are good for kids because they are an outlet for creativity. There is never a citation of research.
I think the opposite is true: creativity needs deep work, and is hampered by constant distraction:
Is X ruining politics?
@freddiesayers interviews Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi — journalist behind the Twitter Files — about whether Elon Musk’s 'digital town square' has become a post-truth political megaphone, and how the UK and US compare on freedom of speech.
I shouldn't post this article on X since it's an external link. Very few people are likely to see it. (Doesn't help I don't have any followers on here of course!) mindmatters.ai/2025/09/where-…
"The Marriage Effect | A common narrative has it that commitment and motherhood make women unhappy. New data suggest the opposite is true" @jean_twenge@TheAtlantic
"As recently as the 1980s, conservatives and progressives were about equally likely to have kids, but now there’s a widening gap, with fewer and fewer left-of-center people reproducing — almost as though a spirit of pessimism is encouraging the left to cede the future to…
It is SO stupid that external links, and S u b s t a c k in particular, get throttled or shadowbanned or censored or whatever the hell goes on here. I am convinced that the renaissance happening over there is a direct result of that disastrous decision by this site's overlord.
To peer into someone’s library is to peer into their brain, and here, it seemed, was a mind that wanted to know everything. smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/t…
“There is an intelligence to the universe (of which we are fractal) and that intelligence has a character and that character is benign. Intends well toward all things. How could it not?” smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/t…
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