Crazy, Stupid, Scroll
By Samantha Jane Lever · In progress
What the book is about
Crazy, Stupid, Scroll is a workbook for 14–24 year olds about the relationship they have with their phone — and about getting to the end of the day without feeling quietly drained by the thing in their hand.
This is the part where you would expect to be told to put it down. Delete the apps, lock it in a drawer, win your life back through sheer willpower. That is not where the book goes, because it does not work and everybody knows it does not work.
The promise instead is that you keep the phone, keep the apps, keep the parts you genuinely love, and still end up the one in charge of the relationship rather than the other way around.
Who it is for
It is written for 14–24 year olds, and often bought by the parents raising them. The reader grew up with this technology, loves it, and is quietly worn down by a relationship they cannot seem to get on their own terms.
They will not be lectured, and they can smell a lecture instantly. So the book does not give one. It treats the reader as a capable person rather than a patient, and it is funny where it can be.
Why this book, now
A ban removes access. It does not teach management. When a restriction lifts, a fifteen-year-old is handed the whole thing on a birthday having been prepared for none of it.
Nobody is selling the preparation. That gap is the book.
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About the author
Samantha Jane Lever is a founder, author and peak performance coach who bridges biology, neuroscience and emerging technologies to empower individuals in the Information Age. She wrote COEVOLUTION: The Essential Human-AI Partnership, published in 2025.
More about her work is on the about page, and both books are listed under books.