Dirt in Your Digital Footprint Finding dirt in the digital footprint of individuals is quickly becoming the new standard of risk management. It’s happening. Digital footprint can potentially be used by any industry or authority. Historically, a bankruptcy in your credit history would limit your access to credit. Riskier customers are charged exorbitant interest rates…

We all want our children to grow up to be happy. What would bring them happiness? Is it money? Fame? Good genes? No. There are plenty of people who have all of those, and they are utterly miserable. It turns out that what makes a good life is the quality…

“We are novelty junkies”. Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone. Are you interrupted by notifications while trying to work? When you hear your phone buzz, do you find it impossible to resist checking what is NEW? Our rational thinking goes out the window as we prioritize the…

I wrote about the toxic combination of digital addiction and ADHD. The question is — what can parents do? We know the problem. What we need is a solution. I have 2 kids with ADHD. I have been fighting the digital addiction war in my home for over a decade…

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants us all to quit reality and move to the Metaverse — a Virtual Reality world where we would live happily ever after as digital avatars. He said it would be great. Do you think we can trust him? The words “Metaverse” and “Avatar” are the…

Neighbors stop me on the street to comment how unusual it is that my children say hello, look them in the eye, and engage in a friendly chat. “Kids just don’t do this anymore!” — they exclaim. I think I know why my neighbors are so pleasantly surprised. My kids have no smartphones. With their…

What is the Attention Economy?

How to use behavior design to manage screen time. — In our family, we went through a lot of screen time pain. It took years before we figured out a system that worked. We lock up our kids’ devices in a safe. We have been using this simple approach for years. It works. In the screen time war I am…

Their comfort zone is the screen. — After a long pandemic screen time binge, schools have reopened. Why do some kids refuse to go back? Because they’d rather stay on their screens. I know, it’s politically incorrect to say this. We are supposed to use proper words, like ”school refusal” and “social anxiety”. I am just pointing out the elephant in the room. Kids…