Bored and Brilliant with Manoush Zomorodi

Connect with Manoush Zomorodi 

Website: www.manoushz.com | Twitter: @manoushz | Book: Bored and Brilliant

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Website: vrainwaves.com | Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

• Manoush’s work (01:08)  
  • Note to Self podcast
  • Zig Zag podcast
  • Ted Radio Hour podcast
  • Stable Genius Productions
  • Bored and Brilliant Book
  • Manoush’s TED Talk
• Technology and our Brain, background of the book (02:07) 
  • Bored and Brilliant challenges, 2015
  • Ways we ‘pay’ for ‘free’ apps
• Taking pictures and our memory (06:04)
  • B & B Challenge 2: Photo Free Day
  • Museum study
  • Photo-taking impairment effect  
• Self-regulation with technology (08:52) 
• Stories from Bored and Brilliant challenges in the classroom (10:10) 
  • Skim reading v. long form reading
  • Maryanne Wolf - researcher, language processing on screens vs in books
  • Sherry Turkle's - Reclaiming Conversation
• Boredom in the classroom (14:15) 
  • Default Mode
  • Autobiographical Planning
  • Embracing boredom - positive constructive mind wandering
  • Memory for future imagining
  • Digital Minimalism Vrain Waves Episode with Cal Newport
• Knowing-Doing Gap for tech use (18:14) 
  • Cambridge-Analytica Scandal
  • California’s new privacy law - Jan 2020
  • The more tired you are, the more likely you are to get stuck in Facebook 
• What Manoush is reading: Super Thinking (22:22) 
  • Gabriel Weinberg
  • Duck-Duck-Go
  • Farnam Street Blog
• Who are you online? (24:19) 
  • Manoush’s No Filter Project
• Takeaways (25:42) 
  • Bored and Brilliant challenges
  • Add a new behavior instead of taking away behavior
  • Seinfeld jokes calendar
  • Streaks app
  • Brainscape app
  • Brainscape article on diffuse and focused modes of thinking
    • Farnam Street blog on diffuse and focused mode
  • Subreddit: Shower Thoughts - Best of Shower Thoughts