Naval Ravikant makes his children watch YouTube with captions to boost reading
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Investor Naval Ravikant shares a learning hack for managing children's screen time on The All-In Podcast.
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“The only thing I ask them is that they put on captions when they're watching YouTube, so it helps their reading.”
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