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Screens have reshaped our lives in such profound ways that some days it feels like online happenings feel more real than real life.

When we are together physically, we are each alone on our phones.

But when we're in our phones, that's when we can be together.

That's Naima Raza, journalist, podcast host, and self-described dumb questions advocate.

In today's talk, she questions how social media, digital life, and AI tools might be hijacking

our lives. But instead of looking

at the problem through an anti-tech lens, she looks at it with a pro-human one. It is sexy to think

that the tech apocalypse is Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Terminator. But it could be so much more mundane

than that. I want to make a case for old habits and tell you how I learn them the hard way.

Naima makes the case for the return of three practical habits to reconnect with that actually

matter in our lives, both for ourselves and for younger generations.

And stick around afterwards, I sat down with Naima to go beyond her talk. We dig into why dumb

questions are actually quite smart and why reigniting curiosity, restoring presence, and breaking free from

our phones is more important now than ever. That's all coming up right after a short break from our

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I ask questions for a living to people like Mark Cuban, Neil deGrasse Tyson,

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And the most surprising answer I heard this year was from two 11-year-olds named Sophie and Dylan.

They too are experts in being kids these days.

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