Reading List: Week 3, December 2021

What is striking is not the machine’s humanness, but the lengths we are forced to go to become compatible with the machine.

Same Old
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If you talk to mental health experts on college campuses, they’ll tell you that along with the rise of ubiquitous smartphone use and social media use among the students on the campus, came an explosion of anxiety-related disorders on those campuses. That’s the canary in the coal mine.

Why you should quit social media
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Infants learn how to interact with their surroundings and discover ways to change their environments from their caregivers, and children learn to regulate their behaviors from observing their parents and caregivers.

High agency: how to feel more in control in your life and work
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The lack of language affects even functions that do not seem to be intrinsically “linguistic,” such as math. Developmental research shows that keeping track of exact numbers above four requires knowing the words for these numbers.

Language Is the Scaffold of the Mind
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