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This week, Claire and Quinn have Amanda Hess (NYT writer and author of Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age) on the pod. They discuss the summer logistics of having a 3-year-old and a 5-year-old, Amanda's emerging second-book obsession (cryogenics, death tech, and the very human story underneath the billionaire-escape-pod headlines), boy mom discourse, training your Instagram algorithm, genetic testing, shame, and the difference between information that helps and information that just produces unnecessary grief and anxiety.

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LINKS

  • Find Amanda's book Second Life, out now in paperback https://bookshop.org/p/books/second-life-having-a-child-in-the-digital-age-amanda-hess/bf2e85d90457100b

  • Follow Amanda on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/astromwallhess/?hl=en

  • Read Amanda's NYT work https://www.nytimes.com/by/amanda-hess

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