Navigating The Post-Trust Era with Shiv Singh
Free Listening, Interviews
Social media and other new communication tools have changed the world mostly for the better. However, it is ever more difficult to know whom to trust and what to believe. The result is that we have entered what Singh describes as a post-trust era. Here we shine a light on…
Finding An Antidote To The Attention Economy with Jenny Odell
Free Listening, Interviews
More and more of us spend enormous spans of our time captured, optimized, or appropriated as a financial resource by the technologies we use daily. We are caught in a dynamic where our value is determined by our productivity. In her book, Jenny Odell points out, “The convenience of limitless…
The Downstream Effects of Digital Polarization With Bruce Alderman, MA
Free Listening, Interviews
In this era of digital polarization and a lack of shared reality and political consensus, we’re navigating massive issues. How might we cope with the many different spheres of sense-making and meaning? Alderman highlights the rapid expansion of information exposure over the past 50 years, leading to an “algorithmic undertow”…
Designing a Thriving Future with Carissa Carter & Scott Doorley
Free Listening, Interviews
How do we intentionally shape the future in a time when the pace of change often feels overwhelming? In this conversation, design leaders Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley from Stanford’s renowned d.school invite us to reimagine the role of design in our daily lives—not just as a means of creating…
Navigating The Post-Trust Era with Shiv Singh
Free Listening, Interviews
Social media and other new communication tools have changed the world mostly for the better. However, it is ever more difficult to know whom to trust and what to believe. The result is that we have entered what Singh describes as a post-trust era. Here we shine a light on…
Exploring the Awesome Depths of the Ocean with Susan Casey
Free Listening, Interviews
Casey, a chronicler of the aquatic world, highlights the complexity and ecological importance of the ocean’s depths as she shares her personal and historical perspectives on exploring its mysteries. We are oddly unacquainted with its depths and importance, which make up more than 70% of Earth’s surface, notwithstanding its depth.…
Living More Mindfully with Digital Technology with Claudia L’Amoreaux
Free Listening, Interviews
After an encounter with a 22-month-old toddler using his cell phone to navigate between Safari’s browser and a children’s video on YouTube, L’Amoreaux felt it was worthwhile to have some deep dialogues around the introduction of young children to such powerful and seductive technology. She cites an REI report called…
The Art and Practice of Listening Well with Leslie Shore
Listening is a very different thing from merely hearing. It takes effort, attention, filtering, and practice. It’s a process that requires us to use different parts of our brain, and a process that is very rarely taught in formal education. Although it is so critical to improving our lives, it…
The Old Future is Gone with Wes Jackson, Ph.D. and Robert W. Jensen, Ph.D.
As we careen from one crisis to the next and focus on political struggles that seem to rarely produce even short-term solutions, it’s easy to avoid big questions that have no easy answers. Questions such as: What is the sustainable carrying capacity of the planet for Homo Sapiens? Has our…
At The Heart Of Loneliness with Kira Asatryan
Despite being connected 24/7 with others, post-modern life is replete with loneliness. Kira Asatryan says the antidote to loneliness is a matter of feeling connected, valued, and cared about.
