How to Talk to Anyone

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Liza: Would you agree, Liza, that try something, try something different, even just leaving your phone in your pocket and the line of the grocery store? Right. Start there. See what happens and, and even be the person that actually initiates a conversation with the person behind you. That would not have happened if I had been on my phone at that moment. It makes me want to have jokes on here. And like, I feel like I need to look up banana jokes. There's got to be a lot of them. A really good book called How to Talk to Anyone by Leo Lowens. She has some incredible ideas of how to talk to anyone quite literally

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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