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Chris Messina

Chris Messina

Chris Messina is an American product designer and consultant known as the inventor of the #hashtag, who proposed the hashtag on Twitter in 2007 and has worked at Google, Uber, and helped create BarCamp and coworking movements.

Aug 21, 2026

7:32
So you found a story that you thought was interesting worth talking about.
7:35
Yeah, yeah.
7:36
So my 16-year-old went back to high school in Oakland and came home with a new set of restrictions on their devices.
7:44
And there had been some restrictions last year.
7:47
But this year, there was a new California law that effectively makes it so that kids cannot use their devices all day long.
7:54
And in fact, from the start of school, they have to put them in these little pouches.
7:57
That's one of the things that my team is most annoyed by.

12 MINS LATER

19:31
I mean, I do think, you know, some of this, and this is not to put it all on the parents, but there has to be some role for the parents as well in terms of helping kids learn to use the technology well, if the schools are not going to do it.

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