Cal Newport on taking your life back from technology
A great podcast to add to your rotation.
The “Deep Work” author, Cal Newport, on focusing on what matters, regaining your “cognitive fitness,” and taking control of your time.
September 20, 2017 podcast social media privacy tech addiction
Active Listening
Conversational narcissists will often repeat shift-responses until the conversation steers towards them. Again.
September 20, 2017 farnam st attention tech addiction communication
How I Got My Attention Back
Technology is commanding our attention in infinite, insurmountable loops. A country trip off-grid helped me escape.
September 20, 2017 wired social media privacy tech addiction instagram
How Instagram Makes You Basic, Boring, and Completely Deranged
By now, most people are familiar with the bad tendencies Instagram encourages: self-absorption, stalking, pastel-pink blandness. Two recent works—a novel, “Sympathy,” and a film, “Ingrid Goes West”—take this as their subject.
September 20, 2017 vice social media privacy tech addiction instagram
Addicted to Your iPhone? You’re Not Alone
Tristan Harris believes Silicon Valley is addicting us to our phones. He’s determined to make it stop.
September 20, 2017 the atlantic social media privacy tech addiction instagram
The Privilege of Logging Off
I often refer to the Varian Rule, the theory that one can forecast the future by observing the preferences of rich people today. While this would have predicted the current ubiquity of the internet if applied twenty years ago, today it points toward a partial retreat from today’s digital saturation