Bored and Brilliant Challenge 4: Take a Fauxcation

Note to Self

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2015

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Your instructions: Craft an away-message like “I’m out, taking an intensive sushi making class! Wasabi fingers so no phone for me today!" Put it up for an hour, an afternoon, or the whole day. It's good for your productivity.

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0:00.0	Hello friend, this is an episode of Note to Self, but from when we used to be called New
0:05.8	Tech City.
0:07.2	Same good content, just the old name.
0:09.6	Enjoy.
0:16.0	From WNYC, this is New Tech City, where digital gets personal.
0:19.6	I'm a new summer Odie, and you are listening to challenge number four of Board and Brilliant,
0:27.1	a project that's getting us to put down our phones and jumpstart our creativity.
0:34.1	Today's challenge may end up being funny or scary for you, but hopefully it will also be relaxing.
0:53.1	Day 4, you're taking a vocation.
0:56.7	As in, foe, FAUX, a pretend vacation.
1:01.3	You're going to get a break from email or texting or whatever means of digital communication
1:06.0	that you feel is the worst at interrupting you all day long.
1:10.8	To take this foe or fake vacation, you'll craft an away message like, I don't know, I'm
1:16.4	out, I'm taking an intensive sushi making class.
1:19.0	Wasabi fingers, so no phone for me today.
1:23.6	If you don't know exactly what to write, don't worry, we've got you covered.
1:26.8	Just cut and paste from the samples that we've posted at NewTexity.org slash board.
1:32.2	Some of them are kind of funny.
1:33.6	It's not you, it's me.
1:35.7	Actually it's Twitter.
1:37.2	It's definitely Twitter.
1:39.3	Digitally detoxing in Tibet.
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