My kids' school banned phones during the school day. The principal promised that the office would relay any messages if parents call, and they do. I would be interested to see if there are already statistics showing academic success. That is, are grades and test scores affected by phone bans? The article talks about graduation rates, but doesn't directly address grades and scores.

Perhaps the wildest thing to me is how you'll have senior leaders in a company talking about innovation, but their middle managers actively undermine change out of fear of liability. So many enterprise IT employees are really just trying to avoid punishment that their organization cannot try new things without substantial top-down efforts to accept risk.

I have also benefited so much from MIT OCW lectures. The quality of their teaching is so high that it showed me that when my children go to college, it will be worth it to send them to a much more expensive elite school.

Not saying this is the only way, but it made a big difference for me and my friends. I realize the physical challenges are artificial, but so is an Advent of Code puzzle when you already have a day job. Hard things are worth doing because they're hard, and they're even better when done together with those you love.

If anyone is struggling to triage bug reports in a Rust open source project, please contact me and I will see if this is something I can donate some recurring time to.

So yeah, I must narrow my Rust shilling to just the programming piece. I concede that it doesn't protect in other operations of development.