Living the Questions — We’ve been enmeshed with our technologies. Tech Shabbat for everyone?

On Being with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Krista’s been in a conversation with Tiffany Shlain for several years about her practice of “Tech Shabbat.” For more than a decade, she and her family have taken a rest from screens sundown Friday to sundown Saturday; her book 24/6 is a kind of manual to open the practice to everyone. After a year in which many of us have relied on our devices as our portals to reality — our sole connection to the people and places we love — Krista called Tiffany to talk about how this practice works. Might it be a reset and ritual we could all use?

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0:00.0	Okay, we've just been wrestling with technology before we talk about talking about wrestling with and living with technology.
0:09.0	Oh my god, we love hate technology.
0:12.0	Oh, that's right.
0:13.0	Oh my goodness.
0:15.0	Yeah, so can we start?
0:18.0	Oh, okay.
0:21.0	All right.
0:22.0	Yeah, so, and has that ever been more true than right now?
0:27.0	Oh my goodness.
0:30.0	We've never been more grateful, you know, and had more reasons to love our technology.
0:35.0	And I have to say I have recently had this feeling of really like getting really angry with my devices.
0:45.0	Like I'm sick of them right?
0:47.0	Exactly.
0:48.0	In the same way I would be sick of a person that I had been attached to attached to the hip width for a year.
0:55.0	And so I'm so happy enough of you.
0:58.0	Right.
0:59.0	Right.
1:00.0	I mean, I think I've even, I think I've even kind of yelled at it or said mean things.
1:05.0	Just go away, but I can't live without you.
1:07.0	I can't live with you.
1:08.0	I can't live with you.
1:09.0	I can't live without you.
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