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Ep. 129: How Do I Get My Kid Off His Smartphone?
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Why I Don't Talk a Ton About My Wife
In part, i think this is a side effect because of the success of attention economy tools. The way that's engineered to press your buttons in an inindividualized fashion’s even more effective at this. I would point to in particular would be aristotle. That greek style of just putting your the eye of your intention internally in working things through rationally ad he thought that was the pheleological necessity of humanness. So non instrumental activity is somehow being unique to humans. And that's probably not actually true, but he thought it that way, an core to our humanity.
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