Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness

podcast. Would you get lost while driving downtown if you didn't use GPS? Do you

find yourself struggling to read a book for more than five minutes without checking your phone?

Would you have trouble writing a grammatically correct email without Google's auto suggested corrections?

Do moments where you run up against your independence on modern technology get you wondering about

the ways some of your personal capabilities seem to be atrophying?

Graham Lee has spent years thinking about this idea. While he's a digital

skills educator who appreciates the way technology can enhance our abilities, he worries

that our ever-increasing reliance on algorithms and artificial intelligence may be robbing us of elements that are vital to the core of who we are.

Lee is the author of human being. Reclaim 12 vital skills we're losing to technology.

And today on the show we talk about some of those dozen endangered skills, including

navigation, reading, writing, craftsmanship, and solitude.

Lee offers case studies on how these skills enhance our humanness, why their loss matters, and how we can reclaim these capabilities

in a greater sense of satisfaction and self-efficacy. After the show is over, check at our showets at

AIM.IS slash human being. All right, Graham Lee, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

So you are a digital skills educator.

What sorts of digital skills do you teach?

So for the years I've taught in all manner of different digital skills from the likes of

digital marketing to various digital technologies and how to use them, things like data science uX design various aspects like that

okay so what's interesting though despite being a digital skills educator you wrote a book

called human being reclaimed 12 vital skills were losing to take you wrote a book called Human Being,

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