If you skipped the homepage video, please go back and spend the time. You will learn that Big Tech has been deliberately structuring the phones to be addictive just as Big Tobacco eventually had to publicly admit doing the same by manipulating nicotine levels to addict its customers.

Three great books cover all the bases: Jonathan Haidt’s 2024 The Anxious Generation: https://jonathanhaidt.com/anxious-generation/

Clare Morell’s 2025 The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones. https://eppc.org/news/new-book-helps-families-escape-the-smartphone-trap/.

Teaching Kids to Think…..raising confident, independent, and thoughtful children in an age of Instant Gratification authors Sweetland and Stolberg 2015 – a husband/wife team that totally gets the big picture and communicates their observations and suggestions beautifully.   

An online resource can be found at  https://www.screenstrong.com. I met founder Melanie Hempe at one of her presentations, she is the real deal as you will learn should you read her story. Her bottom line opener: To be ScreenStrong is to make a countercultural choice to move your child’s entertainment and social life from the online world back to the real in-person world.”  

Another excellent online resource of course is Harris’ own site at https://www.tristanharris.com. The entire site is worth your time to gain deeper insight into the big picture.   

The above will keep you busy for a good while if you are just beginning your education on what I believe to be THE most important issue of our generation. It is worth every minute you can give to it.

John