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Read Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld ★★★★☆📚
Midlife stories from mostly well educated, well off American (USA) women. Often looking back as well as moving forward. Despite being set in such a different world, I was both absorbed & entertained.

I might have enjoyed it even more if I had staked time between the stories.

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Likes ‘No smartphones before 14; no social media until 16’: The Anxious Generation author on how to fight back against big tech.

Give them a flip phone, a brick phone, a dumb phone. The key is you want your kids to be able to communicate with their friends, but you don’t want to give them over to for-profit companies [whose] goal is to hook your child.

My emphasis, I’ve no real idea if keeping kids away from smartphones is possible, but I do wonder if alternatives to for-profit companies could be created?

I wonder too if it might be even more important to keep parents of pre schoolers away from their smartphones?

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Likes I Do Not Remember My Life and It’s Fine by Marco Giancotti.

Intriguing
via Steven Splinter

This is a fascinating read! I had a shallow understanding of what aphantasia is before reading this account of trying to remember without access to mental imagery.

Where the comments are interesting too.

I feel I’ve more than a touch of this, I don’t really visualise, have a less than perfect memory, and my facial recognition is poor. I am quite good with knowing where I am and navigation.