All five couples that you've married are still together. Do you have people lining up for that reason to ask you to marry them? I turn both people away, but only if I know they're going to stay together forever. "I feel like this is the time to be preaching this message because we are more connected than we've ever been yet," he says.
Liza Kindred challenges us to be more mindful in how we use and design technology. She offers us a value system on how to do just that. She encourages us to slow down and incorporate meditation and mindfulness practices into our daily lives. She reminds us to connect more with the real humans physically present with us. She also inspires us to design for the world we want to live in.
- What is Mindful Technology? (6:50)
- Benefits of practicing Mindful Tech? (9:23)
- How do you mitigate FOMO? (24:46)
- Smartphone addiction in the home (30:10)
- Implications if we don't practice mindful tech? (40:52)
- How do we design for human connection? (47:39)
- How can we inspire others to be more mindful with tech? (56:56)
- What would your last words be to designers influencing tech? (67:20)
- Liza's "Eff This" book (71:35)
- Jason's mindfulness tip (76:17)
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