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Note to Self

Go Ahead. Miss Out.

Note to Self

WNYC Studios

Self-improvement, Tech, Note, Npr, Education, Public, Wnyc, Manoush, York, To, New, Self, Radio, Business, Technology, Relationships, City, Society & Culture, Zomorodi, Newtechcity

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

FOMO is real. And it's amplified during the holiday season when party glam shots and scrumptious food pics are everywhere. So let's embrace a little JOMO (Joy of Missing Out) instead.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

And now one of my favorite note to self episodes about how to get fear of missing out

0:07.4

FOMO out of your life and get more joy of missing out.

0:13.3

JOMO.

0:15.3

Happy New Year my dear listeners.

0:17.8

FOMO.

0:20.6

Fear of missing out.

0:23.3

And the new, cheap year.

0:25.3

JOMO.

0:26.3

Joy of missing out.

0:28.7

I mean, many of us throw around these acronyms like they've been around forever, but real

0:33.2

actual people came up with these terms.

0:35.6

And relatively recently, Catarina Fake popularized FOMO and her BFF, a Neil Dash, countered with

0:44.1

JOMO.

0:45.1

How are you?

0:46.1

I'm doing well.

0:47.1

It's funny that we would be talking to each other across the continent while I have

0:52.8

this large fuzzy microphone in my face.

0:57.0

It's note to self, the tech show about being human.

1:01.8

I'm a new summer Odie.

1:07.3

Today when FOMO met JOMO, the two sides of living in a world where you always know what

1:14.6

you're missing, we bring it all together to hash out how we got here and where we're

1:19.5

going.

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