BONUS: Catch-Up with Max Hawkins

Invisibilia

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🗓️ 22 December 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In this bonus episode, we catch up with a character from Season 3 of Invisibilia... Max Hawkins, a San Francisco-based computer programmer who initially built an app to help him break out of his predictable bubble. Recently, Max, and others he's inspired to "bubble-hop," have been led to confront situations they feel have crossed the line from uncomfortable...to morally repugnant. These experiences have meant grappling with when to shut down, and when to engage. Invisibilia is supported by GoToMeeting: https://www.gotomeeting.com/

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0:00.0	This is Invisibilia, Emily Speagle.
0:02.4	We are finishing up reporting on season four of our show,
0:05.6	coming your way in March 2018.
0:08.8	But in the meantime, we had this idea
0:11.2	where we would try to do these little stories
0:13.4	where we catch up with some of the people
0:15.0	that we've met in past seasons.
0:17.5	And today we have a catch up with Max Hawkins,
0:20.8	a man from California who woke up one morning
0:23.5	feeling like his beautiful life was kind of a prison.
0:27.0	I just started thinking about these loops.
0:29.8	That we get into and about habits.
0:33.7	And about how the structure of your life
0:37.3	completely determines what happens in it.
0:40.0	So Max decided to invent a way out of his bubble.
0:44.0	Max worked at Google, so he approached this problem
0:46.9	as many Google engineers would.
0:49.5	He built an app.
0:50.8	What it did was scan Facebook and select at random events
0:54.8	Max could attend.
0:56.4	The app sent him to networking events for young Russian professionals
1:00.8	and dive bars and insurance conferences
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