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I'm not sure if someone has already posted this here, but Cal Newport had a nice presentation summarizing what we know about the effects of social media usage on children.

https://youtu.be/VN5lrKMeAOs

I showed this to my teenaged daughter and while she was irritated, she reluctantly agreed that it made sense.

Nice list of steps to take to become independent of big tech providers

Thanks! I didn't read the data in the pictures, only read the text. Time for GPT4 I guess :-D

As you said, this also looks wrong. Maybe double-counting? Same people or IDs getting leaked across multiple platforms?

The net number (669 million) looks wrong. India's population is around 1.4 billion, so this would mean a data leak of nearly 1 in 2 Indians. If we further remove children below 14 (30% of India) who are unlikely to have data of their own and others who are completely off any of the data leak sources, the number given here would mean everyone in India has had their data leaked!

The data distribution given in the article seems to add to approximately 7 crores (70 million). I think there is a misplaced decimal somewhere. In all probability it is 6.69 crores (66.9 million). Still very significant, though.

I loved "Atomic Habits" but the most useful framework I found for "doing a little" is from the "Elastic Habits" book https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/48905847

Basic Idea --

1. Have 3 options as well as 3 levels for each habit/task/project

2. The lowest (Mini) level should be something you can do on practically any day, no matter how bad things are.

3. Do the level you are comfortable with on any given day

Example (For a health habit)

Mini level: 1 pushup OR 10 steps walking OR One glass of water

Second level (forgot what he called it) : 5 pushups OR 500 steps walking OR 3 glasses of water

Pro level : 20 pushups OR 2000 steps OR 8 glasses of water.

Set the numbers that seem like no-brainers to you. This tends to work extremely well in my experience and accounts for varying environmental, psychological and physiological conditions.

The book has a points system etc which I did not find useful but is otherwise a very good complement to "Atomic Habits"

In all probability, Youtube's algorithm will already suggest this to anyone who watches the talk, but there is a (very) long, ML Street Talk interview on this idea here https://youtu.be/lhYGXYeMq_E

Stanley addresses some strong and subtle criticisms here but I actually preferred the book the most. The book is a bit repetitive but has some very good ideas in the appendix.

The meta-principle is that in complex domains there is no straight line, well worn, "plannable" path to greatness.

Kenneth Stanley calls it "The Myth of the objective" and has spent the last several years trying to formalize this idea (within AI as well) and get it more traction.

Book -- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25670869-why-greatness-c...

Talk -- https://youtu.be/dXQPL9GooyI