Q all, we're spread out across the spectrum, but I feel like Are kind of kids and their age in school, we're entering the age when this, these issues become really, really serious. So it seems it's sort of like we're entering these, these debates and discussions, but are they at the same time getting more serious? Like, do you feel like as an epidemic, this is kind of growing and.
A Well, I think there's two defining inflection points that when we all look back, we'll understand had an outsized impact on our, on the humans that we have been raising. The first is what Dave was talking about, the advent of the smartphone, and, you know, if I look back at, at pictures of Emma, who's, who's our oldest, we had just gotten our smartphone, so it was like she is the smartphone generation, and then COVID, and what, I mean, what age and what stage of life they were at when COVID hit is going to be these distinct chapters. I think we have not even We haven't even begun looking at, at the impact and the trauma just even as adults. So, but kids too, it really mattered what stage of life they were at and what kind of impact it had. And so I think that those two are, are converging into a massive mental health epidemic. And, you know, I think it's, It's also part of us having to bridge back and understand what parts of being connected all the time and living life like a micro influencer, which is what, what, um, I mean, she's going to kill me if she heard this. So what, like maybe her, Type of people do. What that's going to mean for them later in life. What is it going to, I think there's two really interesting things. One is this idea that you are projecting yourself all the time, and it's actually not what we used to do when social media first came out, where it was l…
AI assessment note: “I think that those two are, are converging into a massive mental health epidemic.”