#1121 This episode is worth your time (Culture and Technology)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 21 July 2017
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 07/21/2017
Today we look at the technology that massively influences how we spend our time and hear lots of advice on how we can begin to take back control
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: The Panda is Dancing - @TimeWellSpentio - Air Date 11-28-16
Ch. 3: Song 1: N/A
Ch. 4: Act 2: Tim Wu on The Attention Merchants - The Zero Hour w: @RJEskow - Air Date 4-29-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: One-Armed Bandit - The Viscounts
Ch. 6: Act 3: What If Technology Were Conscious Of Your Time? - @TimeWellSpentio - Air Date 11-22-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: N/A
Ch. 8: Act 4: What If Technology Were Designed For Human Values? - @TimeWellSpentio - Air Date 11-22-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: Forever On Your Team - Frida Selander
Ch. 10: Act 5: Does Technology Actually Make Life Easier, or Just More Hectic? - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 05-08-17
Ch. 11: Song 5: Spider-Man (Live) - Ramones
Ch. 12: Act 6: Tristan Harris: How better tech could protect us from distraction - @TEDTalks - Air Date 6-14-16
Ch. 13: Song 6: Time Well Spent - Tom Felton
Ch. 14: Act 7: Laura Vanderkam - How to gain control of your free time - @TEDTalks - Air Date 2-7-2017
Ch. 15: Song 7: Time In a Bottle - Jim Croce
Ch. 16: Act 8: Yuval Noah Harari - Think Again @bigthink - Air Date 2-25-17
Ch. 17: Song 8: We're Simple Minds - Club 8
Ch. 18: Act 9: Someday - The Minimalists - Air Date 3-29-17
Ch. 19: Final comments on my personal slate of apps, settings and strategies to keep my digital life under control
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There is time. |
| 0:03.1 | Even if we are busy, we have time for what matters. |
| 0:06.5 | And when we focus on what matters, we can build the lives we want and the time we've got. |
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| 0:30.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BEST of the last podcast with Clubs Today from Time Well Spent, |
| 0:36.3 | the zero-hour The David Pakman Show, a couple of TED Talks and the Minimalists. |
| 0:41.3 | The David Pakman Show, a first-class luggage at checkout price. |
| 1:12.3 | Well, maybe. |
| 1:14.3 | With a hula hoop. |
| 1:16.3 | Okay, this is fantastic. I have to share this with my 10 friends and 10,000 strangers, caption, |
| 1:22.3 | who wants to throw a panda rager? Great. |
| 1:26.3 | Let me go back about my life. For God's sakes, I'm trying to write sweat my wife. |
| 1:31.3 | Huh. 30 seconds and just two Facebook likes. |
| 1:36.3 | Or is that just two for which I've been notified? |
| 1:40.3 | Let me go back and check inside and see whose likes are tried to hide. They don't show them all. I wonder why. |
| 1:45.3 | This panda is dancing. |
| 1:48.3 | And another video plays after automatically. |
| 1:51.3 | This one of a gopher that stage turns dramatically. It's like my attention is kept systematically raptured by algorithms that know exactly what I want. |
| 2:02.3 | Or not what I want. Just what I'll watch. |
| 2:06.3 | And the people behind this intelligent design genuinely want to better our lives. |
| 2:11.3 | But their bonuses just so happen to be tied to keeping time on sight, exceptionally high. |
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