Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's Raising Us All?
The Ten Issues
Phase 1 — What's Actually Happening (Issues 1–7) | Phase 2 — What to Do About It (Issues 8–10)
Who Is Really Holding the Phone?
💬 And the four costs worth naming before we go any furtherWhy "just put your phone down" was never going to work — and what's actually being designed against a teenager's attention.
📅 Sun, Jul 26, 2026 Read Issue 1The Price of a Glance
💬 The real cost isn't the four seconds you looked — it's the ten minutes you didn't come back fromRebuilding a motorcycle for profit, Théo learns the tax applies to work you chose, not just homework you didn't.
📅 Sun, Aug 9, 2026 Dropping SoonThe Page You Forgot
💬 She read every word of it. Her friend read the same page — and remembered the sentence that mattered.How scrolling habits train the brain to skim — and what deep understanding actually requires.
📅 Sun, Aug 23, 2026 Dropping SoonWho Killed Your Imagination
💬 Hint: not a person, not on purpose — and it's still sitting in your pocketHow passive consumption crowds out active making — and why an idle ten minutes matters more than it looks.
📅 Sun, Sep 6, 2026 Dropping SoonBorrowed Brilliance
💬 The argument was excellent. She still couldn't explain, out loud, why it was true.How digital and AI reliance are reshaping independent reasoning — the tool that thinks for you, not with you.
📅 Sun, Sep 20, 2026 Dropping SoonKnown By No One
💬 Forty replies came in that night. Not one of them noticed she felt invisible.How hyperconnection and isolation are rising together, and what comparison culture does to a teenager's sense of self.
📅 Sun, Oct 4, 2026 Dropping SoonExhausted By Design
💬 The bad mood didn't start this morning. It started at 12:40 last night.The physiological chain linking screens, sleep, and mood — and why it's a loop, not a line.
📅 Sun, Oct 18, 2026 Dropping SoonIs This A Problem?
💬 The behavioral signs actually worth watching for — and the ordinary teenage ones that aren'tWhat to actually watch for — and what's just ordinary teenage life mistaken for something more.
📅 Publishing soon Dropping SoonBanning Phones Isn't A Strategy
💬 What actually changes a classroom's relationship with attentionDevice policy, curriculum, and teaching self-regulation as a skill worth actually teaching.
📅 Publishing soon Dropping SoonThe Place of Family
💬 A digital agreement no one signs alone — built together, not handed downThe series closes where it should: a practical agreement, built with a teenager, not imposed on one.
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