How to Parent in a Digital World: Resources
Family Minecraft Policy (Google Docs version here)
Family Support Form Responses (copy this to your Google Drive so you can adapt it to your family’s needs. For help, see How to copy a Google Form)
iOS 12: Getting to Know Screen Time & Stronger Parental Controls (for iPhone/iPad)
The Complete Guide to Setting up Parental Controls in Windows
How to use Parental Controls in Windows 8
How to Use Parental Controls in OS X to Protect Your Kids
4 Ways to Set up Parental Controls on Your Home Network
Parental Control Tools That Cover Every Device In Your Home
What Jetpack social posts look like across platforms
Rather than choosing a new home on someone else's social network, can you use WordPress as a publishing hub for all your different networks? That's what I'm trying today. You can read the explanation of why I'm exploring this option in the post I used to test Jetpack...
A better way to social?
The sudden flight to Bluesky has me thinking about the ongoing dilemma of picking a social network. As I wrote seven years ago in JSTOR Daily, I'm pretty skeptical about the idea of investing my time and energy in any for-profit platform; as the Twitter saga clearly...
Showers with robots 🤖🚿
What I learned from inviting ChatGPT to my final frontier
How to pick the right AI for each task
AIs, like humans, work best when you appreciate their differences.
4 Ways To Make Work Fit Your Unique Brain
You deserve the working arrangements that work for you.
That’s my kid!
"That's my kid!" These are the words my heart shouted when I saw Gus Walz shouting, "That's my Dad!" Like so many proud parents of hashtag#neurodivergent kids (many of whom are neurodivergent ourselves), I instantly saw my own 18-year-old son in that...
Escape overload with meta-work
7 ways to get better at the meta-work that makes your whole life easier.
How to run your own weekly accountability process with the help of A.I.
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Inside You There Are Three A.I.s
Generative A.I. can boost your productivity and expand your creativity, but it becomes much more usable and powerful when you customize it for your own needs. And that's very easy to do—no coding required!—with tools like OpenAI's "Create a GPT", Claude.ai's new...
Learn to think visually with ChatGPT
I admire AI artists who can think of the right prompt to illustrate a concept or story. But I'm not a visual thinker, so the hardest part of image creation is often thinking about how to represent an idea visually. For my newsletter this week, I wanted a header image...