Spencer Cox
American Republican politician, 18th Governor of Utah, elected in 2020 and re-elected in 2024, and earlier its lieutenant governor; leads the Disagree Better initiative and wrote Off Ramp: How to Be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt.
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Their wordsWe have real life evidence that removing phones and social media from kids can bring back the joy of reading. It’s like giving your kid a super power. It will make them smarter and happier than their peers.
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Their wordsThe statistics are dark. But they are also reversible. I know because I’ve done it. After deleting social media from my phone, I unlocked my focus and started reading recreationally again.
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsWe’re losing the ability to disagree without seeing each other as enemies. There has to be a better way, and this book is my attempt to find it.
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsWe’ve allowed the wealthiest and most powerful companies in the history of the world to do incalculable damage to our kids while they lied and hid evidence that their products were at fault. It’s time for the US to follow suit.
- 2 months earlier
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Their wordsOur country needs an all-of-the-above approach to energy (like Utah). We should be all in on nuclear/natural gas/geothermal and keeping our coal plants open for as long as possible.
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Their wordsoffshore wind is a disaster and should be discontinued
- 7 weeks earlier
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Schools should ban phones for the whole school day, bell to bell, not only in classrooms.
Their wordsGetting the classroom ban was a nice step forward, but it was a huge mistake not to pass a full day (bell-to-bell) ban in Utah.
- 12 days earlier
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Their wordsThe ability to read, synthesize, write and speak IS the ability to think. If AI is destroying that in some of our most ambitious/intelligent kids, I shudder to imagine what it means for society.
- 2 weeks earlier
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Having children does more than anything else to develop your God-given talents, and humbles you.
Their wordsI promise that having kids will do more to maximize your God-given talents (at least the ones that matter) than anything else you can do. It will also humble you and enlarge your soul
- 7 days earlier
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Their wordsJust not for writing projects that require actual thinking. We vastly underestimate the pull of choosing the path of least resistance and are not nearly terrified enough of the ways AI is about to atrophy the human brain for most humans.