People want success to happen for them really quickly, and I was always of the mindset of respecting the art form, respecting the people that came before me, and respecting the craft. Have good teachers. Find your own. What is your method of acting? [Don't copy] somebody else's method and try to approval-seek but finding what works for you ... That was success, not necessarily making a whole bunch of money or fame ... It's always been more about the craft.

These phones are actually addictive. I know television is addictive but you're a six-foot distance from it. In this case, a phone is right next to you, it's constantly pinging you, and it's got all the elements of a slot machine... all the elements of gambling or drug use.

The internet is not well made for protecting our mental health. In many ways, it is a hellscape for our mental health.

If we did a fantasy draft of things that we should just eliminate and the world would be better, I think Twitter might be my number one choice

I used have this thing when I started off in reporting... I would always ask myself, 'What are people lying to me about?' That was always my criteria. And then I realized quickly the right question to ask was, 'What are people lying to themselves about?'

When something goes wrong in an autonomous vehicle, a million other cars learn that mistake. When something goes wrong with me in a car accident, I learn... and maybe not. I might do it six times again.

I think Facebook has turned into a place for people 40 and over

Human psychology is dis-evolved, improperly evolved, for a world where we are getting our sense of self from a screen, from a phone, where we're open to the opinion of anonymous hordes. We're not built for that ... We're just not meant to live through screens.

One trial found that people on Ozempic went on longer walks. There's a Morgan Stanley survey that found that patients on GLP-1s ate 60% less candy and 40% more vegetables. It seems to reduce smoking for smoking addicts, gambling for gambling addicts, and even for some compulsive nail-biting.

Arguing whether immigration is good is astonishing... Of course it is.

The physical world has gotten a little bit safer, but the emotional experience of teenagers has gotten worse—and I think it's basically gotten worse because of phones.

The erosion of the mainstream across categories—news and politics and celebrity media—has turned culture into a portfolio of cults, and that's made it really hard for people to talk to and understand each other.

Nobody's going to own a car someday

We live in a world where anxiety and mental health issues have been destigmatized. It used to be shameful to say that you had depression or anxiety ... Today, there's a way in which mental health issues, anxiety and depression, have become kind of like identities—people talk about them openly and sometimes even proudly on social media.

She said, 'You can see how the Internet and the way the Internet talks about mental health might be really bad for our mental health, and we need a better way of talking about anxiety and depression on the Internet if we actually want to dispel this stuff rather than just marinate in it.'

If you look at the official data from the CDC, the youth behavior risk survey, teenage anxiety, sadness, hopelessness—it's just going up and up and up.

Most people think of these drugs as weight loss drugs. And I am on the train of no, you should actually maybe think of them as psychiatric drugs that work through your gut.

One of the big problems of these drugs is that with really fast weight loss, people tend to lose both fat and muscle. And for older people, really for anyone, muscle retention is really important...

Because GLP-1 drugs have been around for 10 or 15 years for diabetics, people taking them now are not the guinea pigs. People who were taking them in, say, 2006-2008, they were the real guinea pigs.

The signs of an innovative society are tolerance, openness, and immigration... Every society that's been innovated over the course of history all have the same hallmarks of how they got that way.