and kehinde s artistic integrity would not allow him to do what i asked. i tried to negotiate smaller ears. struck out on that as well. the painting of michelle obama shows a fashion forward first lady. she chose amy sherald who painted with gray scale. not to erase race, but declaring it irrelevant. it was a mixed response. very mixed. i heard tera say it looked like kerry washington. not michelle obama. it breaks with tradition. that is what the first lady wanted. she wanted to break with tradition. she said she wanted little girls to look up and see someone who looked like them on the wall. the president s looks like
addicted. what do you tell parents who are asking that? i think some simple things like right now if you re listening to this, if you re a parent, turn off all notifications on your phones or your kids phones except when a human being wants your attention. that s one change you could make. and another one is another one is turning your phone to gray scale. make your phone gray, it takes out all those like slot machine rewards. it s more like a tool and less like an addictive substance. do you think we can put the genie back inside the bottle? i don t think it s about putting it back in the bile, but redesigning the genie. every time you open up that blue facebook icon, you just activated a super computer that s going to play chess against your mind to figure out what s the perfect thing i can show you? and it s only getting better and better and better at doing that. and when you realize you re bringing a knife, like