David Taylor

What is the effect of giving children smartphones before the age of 13? It's bad. Strongly associated with poorer mental health and wellbeing. BUT the evidence is largely correlational. What does this mean? 🧵⬇️

I’m tired of hearing about bats. Do you want to hear a story about jumping spiders and the town that disappeared? I think I might be breaking this story – do come be the first to read it.

On immigration and housing in the UK. A quick thread. There has been a 'debate' over the last few days online about whether high levels of immigration are responsible for unaffordable housing in the UK. Albeit with rather little reference to data. Here's some... 1/n

As a Charles Wesley fan, I’m here to help with one of the best (and most often incorrectly edited) Christmas hymn lyrics of all. Do you know which lyric it is? Hint: it’s in “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” /1

The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵

Noise is a secret destroyer of productivity. It is secret because it impacts cognition, not effort, so we don’t notice, but a 10db noise increase (from a dishwasher to a vacuum) lowers productivity by 5%. Noise is also greater in poorer neighborhoods... joshuatdean.com/wp-content/upl…

The 8 best storytelling threads on Twitter:

Not a single kid has died in a mass reading, yet they're banning books instead of guns.

Isaac Asimov, talking about school all the way back in 1988. The highlights: ∙ We mistakenly think that learning is for kids, not adults. ∙ Education isn't something you finish. It's something that should last a lifetime. ∙ Like prison, the reward of school is getting out.

The paradoxes of modern life. Here's my mini-essay.

you singing: football's coming home me whispering: all 4 semi-finalists played their 3 group games in their own country

A professional sports gambler used analytics to turn a $700,000 loan into more than $300 million. This is the wild story 👇👇👇

Also on the subject of PSG, they invested all their eggs in the UEFA basket. Just spend a few minutes reading about all the links between PSG - Qatar - UEFA. A Qatar business hiring Platini's son just before the WC voting. The leaked emails showing Infantino trying to help PSG

Simple but effective tips for deep reading (from ⁦@BStulberg⁩ ⁦@stevemagness⁩) thegrowtheq.com/a-brief-guide-…

Incentives are one of the most powerful forces that shape our daily behavior, yet remain relatively unknown because they are hidden. A thread on the incentives of coaching -- how we've gotten them wrong, and what we can do to get them right...

How do you define luck? What role does it play in success? 🍀 @kairoshq on #FindingMastery

New on The Tomkins Times: Like Roy Keane, Are You Too Simple To Understand Liverpool’s Situation? | bit.ly/39YBKtg | #LFC