Z's 3-in-3 • How superstars search YouTube • 7 ideas to help with kids' screen time • You don't have to be normal

By Zvonimir Fras • Issue #20 • View online

Smart. Entertaining. Helpful. 3 things in 3 minutes.

Because you have things to do.

How superstars search YouTube
7 ideas to help with kids’ screen time
You don’t have to be normal

What did the ocean say to the beach? Nothing, it just waved.

Look, I’m a dad.

It’s Father’s Day.

No apologies.

Thing 1 - How superstars search YouTube

YouTube is a treasure chest of the world’s video information.

Filmot is a magnet you need to find that needle in the haystack of YouTube.

Thing 2 - 7 ideas to help with kids' screen time

Not interested in the generations we’re leaving our world to? Skip to Thing 3.

You, a human, are motivated by

Autonomy
Competency
Relatedness

If you don’t get them, your mental health suffers.

Last I checked our kids are also humans. So they are motivated by those 3 as well.

Autonomy

Active-duty Marines and incarcerated felons have less than half the restrictions that the average school kid has.

Photo by Joel Rivera-Camacho

Did you see that? 👀

It was your kid’s autonomy flying out the window.

Competency

You’re unique a.k.a. different from everyone else.

When you compare everything you do to everyone else, there’s always someone who does that thing better than you.

That’s what school looks like with all the standards, metrics, and “one size fits all” curriculum.

Photo by Nguyen Dang Hoang Nhu

Have fun trying to feel competent.

Relatedness

You become friends with people you have things in common with. You also need to spend time with them.

Packed schedule
Extensive curriculum
Adult-led activities
Cuts in recess length
Quiet lunch

When do you socialize? Not in school.

Kids have no choice except to seek all those online. But they can overdo it.

Here’s how you can help them

Discuss the pros and cons of screens together
Show you understand their struggles
Acknowledge you face similar challenges
Address screen time in an autonomy-supported way
Provide opportunities for real-world fulfillment
Encourage more creation and less consumption
Offer a better “yes”

Dive deeper on each in Ana’s video 👇

How to Manage Our Kids' Screen Time (6:41)

Ana is Chief Evangelist at Synthesis school, so she knows what she’s talking about.

Synthesis is scaling the best ideas from Ad Astra, the lab school Synthesis co-founder started with Elon for his and Spacex engineers’ kids.

Thing 3 - You don't have to be normal

Trying to be “normal” will give you anxiety if your potential lies in your differences.

- Orange Book

Note to self: allow yourself to be different.

Being yourself unlocks your specific knowledge - things that feel like play to you but look like work to others.

Nothing wrong with being “normal”, btw. Just remember you don’t need to fit into a box just because it’s there - you’re not a cat.

Time to hit send but Sandstorm blasting in my headphones makes me not wanna go to sleep. Reply with a playlist recommendation for next week!

Self-control is getting the best out of me so I’m signing off.

Talk to you in a week if I don’t see you before that on Twitter.

Cheers, Zvonimir

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