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🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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The world of tech is nuanced, complex, and filled with jargon. That makes it the perfect breeding ground for scams and hoaxes. How can we defend ourselves from snake oil salespeople? Through the powers of critical thinking!
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0:00.0 | It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here? |
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0:32.7 | And I go by the name, Q. Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cypher. That's right. We discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way |
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1:05.2 | Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from IHeart Radio. |
1:12.6 | Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. |
1:15.1 | I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. |
1:16.9 | I'm an executive producer with IHeart Podcasts and How the Tech Are You know, since we're wrapping up my run as host of Tech Stuff, I thought it might be a good time to revisit one of the guiding |
1:29.4 | principles of this show, that being critical thinking. I've always said Tech Stuff really |
1:35.9 | has two guiding principles, critical thinking and compassion, that only with both of these |
1:40.9 | can you, in my opinion, live an accountable and decent life? You need to have |
1:46.3 | compassion so that you're not a total jerk, and you need to have critical thinking so you're not a |
1:51.2 | total dip. And critical thinking is absolutely important in all aspects of life. I like to bring it up |
1:57.5 | within the context of technology, because tech is both incredibly complicated, |
2:03.1 | and it also touches our lives every single day in hundreds or thousands of ways. |
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