How Suzy Seas It with Suzy Weiss: Monday, November 17th, 2025

In this book, Claudia Oshry shares her journey from a 'funemployed' millennial to a flourishing media entrepreneur. She reflects on her childhood, her rise to fame on Instagram, and her experiences with A-list celebrities. The book also delves into the complexities of social media stardom, fandom, and cancel culture, offering humorous and insightful anecdotes. Claudia discusses her personal growth, relationships, and the challenges of maintaining authenticity in a digital landscape.

In 'The Anxious Generation', Jonathan Haidt examines the sudden decline in the mental health of adolescents starting in the early 2010s. He attributes this decline to the shift from a 'play-based childhood' to a 'phone-based childhood', highlighting mechanisms such as sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, and perfectionism that interfere with children’s social and neurological development. Haidt proposes four simple rules to address this issue: no smartphones before high school, no social media before age 16, phone-free schools, and more opportunities for independence, free play, and responsibility. The book offers a clear call to action for parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments to restore a more humane childhood and end the epidemic of mental illness among youth.