These Executives are restricting the screen time of their children for a number of reasons. Some executives, like Evan Spiegel and Sundar Pichai, grew up without much access to technology and credit the technology restriction to their success. They may want to replicate this experience for their own children. Other executives, like Steve Jobs, value face-to-face conversation and interaction and believe that technology can be a distraction from these types of interactions. Some executives, like Susan Wojcicki, want their children to learn how to manage technology responsibly and balance screen time with other activities. Others, like Alexis Ohanian and Serena Williams, want to limit their daughter's screen time as she gets older to ensure that she doesn't become overly reliant on or addicted to technology.
> Others, like Alexis Ohanian and Serena Williams, want to limit their daughter's screen time as she gets older to ensure that she doesn't become overly reliant on or addicted to technology
I had an interesting epiphany when reading this sentence. At first, my reaction was that this was a bit of a different comparison to the others, given that Serena Williams is much more famous than her husband, and she's known not for technology but for being arguably the most dominant athlete of an entire generation (not just in her sport, and not just among women, but like, decades of winning tournaments at the highest level is basically unparalleled). But then I realized that most of these other people mentioned also have another parent alongside them, and the fact that they're not famous doesn't mean that they don't have equally strong opinions about how to raise a child, and ideally most parenting couples will be cooperative and not just "the most famous person's opinions win". I wonder if a lot of these famous executives didn't come up with their parenting strategies on their own, but after discussion and inspiration from their partner as well. Put in that light, it's a lot harder for me to just assume hypocrisy when I know I've grown and changed so much for the better since finding my partner to settle down with for the rest of my life. We don't have any desire for children of our own, but it seems pretty logical that if it were something we wanted, the initial ideas I had when we started discussing parenting would potentially evolve through insights I would gain from my partner, since that's exactly what's happened with all of the discussions we've had about long-term plans that we do have.
