The Radically Simple Digital Diet We All Need

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

These days our smartphone addiction has gotten so intense that many of us now habitually use the devices even when we’re supposedly unplugging. We listen to podcasts on our trail runs and endlessly document our weekend adventures for Instagram. All this has author Cal Newport deeply concerned. Newport has made a name for himself as a sort of canary in the digital coal mine, writing about the perils of our screen-dependent modern lifestyles. Last winter he published Digital Minimalism, a manifesto that proposes a reimagining of our relationship with technology that begins with a 30-day digital diet. Outside editor Christopher Keyes talks with Newport about his radical—but very simple—approach to technology and how it can work for everyone.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Adidas, the new Terrics Freehiker.
0:06.0	A piece of gear that was conceived as a response to the fact that there's no such thing as a through-hiking shoe.
0:12.0	Thruhikers are all basically wearing trail runners.
0:15.0	That comes with certain sacrifices in terms of stability, in terms of protection.
0:20.0	This is Marcus Westerberg, a product designer who worked on the free hiker.
0:24.0	As we basically saw kind of an interesting challenge for us to kind of merge the knowledge that we have of making hiking shoes with the knowledge that we have from making running shoes and kind of see if we could bring these two worlds together.
0:37.0	With the free hiker, Adidas set out to make a shoe that would feel good on your feet as you hiked and last longer on the trail than a traditional running shoe. your foot is already really good at walking so mostly they got out of its way. They added
0:50.5	their proprietary boost foam for cushioning and then made an upper that sort of feels like wearing a sock.
0:56.0	So it's very comfortable, it's very well fitted, and it's very lightweight.
1:01.0	The result is a really impressive really good-looking shoe. I've been kind of living in mine
1:06.7	because even though I live in a city when I'm not in the trail I do walk around a lot and I think the shoe kind of fits in those both worlds in a really nice way by by basically
1:18.2	taking those same things that make the shoe great for hiking also makes it relevant in a street in an urban environment.
1:25.0	I've been seeing the shoe popping up on design blogs and fashion blogs and things like that.
1:32.3	Are you, is that what you mean by relevant?
1:35.0	I mean, that's definitely an aspect of it and
1:37.4	and I'm definitely happy and excited that the shoe is doing so well as it's doing. I think it's also to do with the with the
1:44.4	functionality issue like one of the things that we hear from people is that it's just so comfortable.
1:49.1	Find out more about the free hiker at Adidas. Come slash Terex.
1:53.4	That's T-E-R-E-X.
1:57.0	From Outside magazine and PRX, these are dispatches.
2:05.0	Stories from our writers in the field.
2:07.0	Just this past week, the New York Times ran a story about the latest technology scare
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