Read books, etc (see [https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt](https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt)) ---- As [Rausch writes](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/06/opinion/religious-teens-mental-health/), kids who live in well-rooted “real-world communities … spending more time engaging in their local community –[ attending religious services, working, spending more time with trusted adults](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1moM3e_dcajEJzDR_uBK1mIs3hZ8vFZJ4MfUx7NZIx3I/edit#gid=809472783&range=B35), and spending more[ time](https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-generations-jean-m-twenge/18698850?ean=9781982181611)[with their friends](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-jean-twenge.html) in person” — are less likely to experience the harms of the phone-based childhood. Where community is strong, the impact has been softened. [https://www.afterbabel.com/p/the-upstream-cause-of-the-youth-mental](https://www.afterbabel.com/p/the-upstream-cause-of-the-youth-mental) ---- ## lib - sleep schedule - activities/hobbies, get outside, do stuff - stop spending all your money - screen time: add downtime for lib? ## cel - lying, drinking, etc? - get a job, volunteer, and/or find different ways to take risks - put youtube back on time limit? It’s not fucking cops and robbers or cat and mouse or whatever, it’s how to survive and be healthy and succeed in a fucked up dangerous world. work with me to get thru your dumb years