How to Make Your Calendarin in Terms of Your Values

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Technology can be used to help people live their lives in terms of values. We evolve needs for reasons, we need to listen to them and respect them. A species that does not pay attention to nature will end up with the amazon rain forest on fire. On a next episode, we'll talk to maria ressa journalist fighting the impacts of pervasive social media influence in the philippines.

What causes addiction? Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream, travelled some 30,000 miles in search of an answer. He met with researchers and lawmakers, drug dealers and drug makers, those who were struggling with substance abuse and those who had recovered from it, and he came to the conclusion that our whole narrative about addiction is broken. "The opposite of addiction is not sobriety," he argues. "The opposite of addiction is connection." But first, we have to figure out what it really means to connect.