Arthur Nguyen (WIN) 🏆 ✌️

Teaching by day, researching science and finance all time!

[Arthur Nguyen (WIN) 🏆 ✌️ @awinteach]

Motivation Song I can pass the class
Remixed by Mr.Nguyen @ winelements
Educational Purpose Only

I will not give up, I will keep trying,
No more lost minutes that drift and are dying.
Let every heartbeat beat in triumph and rhyme,
I swear on this page I will stop wasting time!
I can do it—don’t give up—keep trying!
I can pass the class—don’t give up—keep trying!
Mountains of homework I conquer in climb;
Pages ignite as my efforts align—
I can do it—don’t give up—keep trying!
I can pass the class—don’t give up—keep trying!
Questions unfold like a puzzle divine,
Step after step, every pattern I find,
Teacher’s approving, “You’re keeping the line,”
Hard‑won knowledge rings, majestic, sublime.
I can pass the class—don’t give up—keep trying!
I CAN DO IT—DON’T GIVE UP—KEEP TRYING!
I CAN PASS THE CLASS—DON’T GIVE UP—KEEP TRYING!
Echoing courage that shatters the grime;
Finish the mission, let excellence chime—
I CAN PASS THE CLASS—DON’T GIVE UP—KEEP TRYING!
“I did it, and I’ll do it again—NOW.”

[Arthur Nguyen (WIN) 🏆 ✌️ @awinteach]

Eric Church - 2026 Commencement Speech at UNC Chapel Hill
https://t.co/s5g9uZbFIo

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

The iPhone Era really tanked girls' expectations for marriage and motherhood.😢@grantjbailey

[Camus @newstart_2024]

“TikTok is the fentanyl of social media.”

Jonathan Haidt didn’t mince words on the High Performance podcast. He called it the number one destroyer of attention, focus, and executive function in kids, and by extension, human potential.

He sees students in his class spending six hours a day on it. Not scrolling casually, living there. Skipping homework, skipping friends, just endless algorithm-fed dopamine. The Chinese version keeps kids focused and limited. Ours? It weaponizes micro-pauses to push pro-anorexia content to teenage girls in days. No social graph, just pure brain-hijacking precision.

That hit me hard. We’ve normalized something that’s quietly rewiring an entire generation’s ability to think deeply or sit with discomfort. I’ve gotten stricter at home because of stuff like this - the data is too consistent to ignore.

In a world selling constant distraction as entertainment, protecting real attention might be the ultimate parenting (and self-parenting) battle left.

What’s been your line with TikTok or short-form apps — full ban, strict limits, or something else?

[California Teachers Association @WeAreCTA]

🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Newsom Releases May Revise. Here’s what you need to know.

📢 It’s time for the governor and Legislature to deliver a final budget that fully funds our schools and invests every guaranteed dollar owed to our students.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

A new study of over 50,000 kids just dropped a sobering finding:

Kids getting more than 4 hours of screen time a day showed significantly higher rates of anxiety, depression, and attention problems like ADHD.

It’s not proving direct cause and effect, but the pattern is clear: when screens replace sleep, physical activity, and real human connection, mental health suffers.

The nurse practitioner on FOX Carolina put it simply — it’s less about the exact number of hours and more about what those hours are replacing.

Research consistently shows that excessive screen time disrupts melatonin production, reduces deep sleep, and limits opportunities for physical movement and face-to-face interaction — all critical for healthy brain development in children.

We’re raising a generation glued to screens, and the mental health fallout is becoming impossible to ignore.

Many families are now seeing the difference when kids get more outdoor time and less scrolling.

What do you think — are we letting screens take too much from our kids’ development, or do you think the benefits outweigh the risks?

[Engineering at Meta @Meta_Engineers]

Today we're announcing LevelUp: a free, four-week training program that takes people with no prior experience and prepares them to work as fiber technicians on data center construction sites across the US.

We built this program with CBRE because the fiber technician field, and the broader construction industry, is facing a nationwide shortage at a time when data center demand is higher than ever.

How it works:
🔧 Classroom instruction, hands-on labs + team activities covering transferable technical skills

🎓 Graduates have the opportunity to work at Meta's US construction sites through our contractor network

🤝 Open to everyone from recent high school grads to mid-career professionals

Since 2010, Meta's data center projects have supported 30,000+ skilled trade jobs during construction + 5,000+ permanent operational roles. LevelUp is about building the pipeline to keep that going.

Learn more: https://t.co/9XluD5IHbz

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

• 65% of teachers say student behavior has gotten worse over the past year.

• 58% say parents need training on teaching their kids school-appropriate behavior.

“We noticed that students went from 0 to 100 very quickly. They didn’t have the skills to cope when they got upset.”

[Education Week @educationweek]

Teachers Say Behavior Problems Aren't Just About Students. It’s the Parents https://t.co/JdyoyigLkJ

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Bell-to-bell, cell phone–free education is restoring focus and reconnecting families in 26 states. Strong schools build strong communities. That’s how we Make America Healthy Again.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Social isolation reduces cognitive function.

Stay connected.

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

Frequently watching low-quality slop induces BRAIN ROT — a state of cognitive atrophy now documented in the peer-reviewed literature.

Doomscrolling, zombie scrolling, and streams of AI slop are producing measurable cognitive impairment across an entire generation.

[Anuja Jaisswal @AnujaJaiswalTOI]

It begins innocently. One short video while waiting for a cab. Another before dinner. A few more before sleep. Somewhere between swipe and scroll, 40 minutes disappear. Short-form videos are everywhere — on #InstagramReels, #YouTube Shorts and similar platforms. But a global review of nearly 98,000 people, published in Psychological Bulletin, suggests that heavy, compulsive use may be affecting how we focus and how we feel. #shortvideos #swipe #scroll #stress #anxiety
@timesofindia

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Addiction to short-form videos reduces brain activity in the frontal lobe weakening the ability to focus.

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

$6.25 Billion

25 Million kids

$250 Each

Susan and I are seeding 25M children with $250 to jump-start their financial futures — and the government is adding $1,000 for newborns. Thousands of companies and others are contributing.

Ownership. Compounding. Opportunity.

The smartest investment we can make is in our children.

But it only happens IF you sign up your child: https://t.co/ZbvWyXm9WL

@InvestAmerica24 💪🚀🇺🇸

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

now imagine this on a brain where the prefrontal cortex has barely started developing, where dopamine sensitivity is an order of magnitude higher than adults, and every neural pathway is being wired from scratch in real time

thats a toddler with an ipad

giving a 2 year old short-form video is for all intents and purposes indistinguishable from giving them cocaine.

same reward pathway, same dopamine hijack, zero executive function to regulate it, and a brain that won't even finish developing before being irreparably compromised

ipad kids are brain damaged and the parents who did it to them for a "quiet dinner" (read: lazy) should be treated exactly the way we would treat anyone who gives cocaine to toddlers

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major life hack: Walk in nature.

Stanford study found that a 90-minute nature walk meaningfully reduced rumination and activity in the brain region associated with depression.

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

54% of American teenagers now use AI chatbots for help with their schoolwork. Nearly 60 percent believe that chatbot-assisted cheating has become, in Pew's phrasing, "a regular feature of student life." The numbers have doubled in two years.
But I think the worst thing about this is cognitive offloading and the fact there is a new generation of students who think they are learning when they're not. According to Pew, most students aren't actually cheating and asking chatbots to write their essays. They're asking them to explain, summarise, and solve. They probably think they're studying but this is 'cognitive offloading and does something cheating never does: it leaves the student believing they've learned when they haven't done anything remotely like the thinking that learning requires.
Many schools haven't got to grips with this at all it seems. Are we still pretending that coursework or take-home essays are valid measures of learning?
https://t.co/koy3QEOXvE

[Coach Noah Revoy | Arms Dealer For The Soul 🏴‍☠️ @NoahRevoy]

Structure builds high agency children.

Parenting becomes simple when it rests on a minimal set of principles.

All behavior can be evaluated through four rules.

1. Reciprocity Rule

Do not do to others what you would not accept done to you. Do for others what you expect from them. Be just and do not accept unjust treatment.

2. Truth Rule

Say only what you are willing to stand behind. Say what must be said.

3. Property Rule

You own yourself and your future. Protect your body, time, and work, and respect the body, time, and work of others.

4. Responsibility Rule

You are responsible for your actions, your words, your things, and your promises.

These four rules form the governing architecture of the home.

Every correction refers back to one of them.

When a child acts out, the question is simple.

Which rule did you violate?

The child learns to evaluate his own behavior against a stable standard.

Limits become self-generated.

Bedtime aligns with responsibility to tomorrow’s commitments.

Screen use aligns with stewardship of attention and respect for shared time.

Speech aligns with truth.

Conflict aligns with reciprocity.

Damage aligns with repair.

Young children require direct direction while reasoning develops.

As reasoning strengthens, correction becomes instruction.

Instruction strengthens judgment.

Judgment strengthens self-regulation.

The child learns to say, I know this violates reciprocity.

I know this disrespects property.

I know this avoids responsibility.

At that point, the parent assists with mindfulness and follow-through.

The standard remains constant.

The enforcement becomes increasingly internal.

Identity and principle must develop together.

The child sees himself as worthy of good treatment, and responsible for giving that treatment to himself.

He sees himself as part of something greater than himself, bound to family and future.

For the sake of those he is connected to, he maintains his body, his word, and his relationships.

He sees himself as virtuous, practicing honesty, discipline, fairness, and accountability.

Identity directs behavior.

Behavior reinforces identity.

A home built on these four rules produces high-agency adults.

High-agency adults reason from principle.

They evaluate authority.

They repair harm.

They govern themselves.

Structure is simple.

Four rules.

Consistent reference.

Long-term sovereignty.

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

Lyman arrives, bearing bad news for those who argue parenting (in this culture) can be easy. More authoritative parents have better relationships w/ their teens today. But they also feel like it's hard to be authoritative in this culture. Dovetails w/@jtrothwell @BrookingsInst.