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"The First Smartphone Dilemma": Free 5-Part Course for parents -> https://go.gadflyacademy.com/waitlist-not-yet-ga-sp In this episode, Dr. Herman Middleton argues that human depth: the capacity for sustained attention, genuine connection, and original thought...is the defining scarce resource of the Age of AI, and that early smartphone use is quietly destroying it in an entire generat...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List (+ Social media links!): https://sleekbio.com/gadflyacademy || *This is the lost episode that got overlooked over Christmas and New Year's!|| Paul Kingsnorth’s new book, Against the Machine , is one of the most profound critiques of modern technological civilization. || This is why we took a deep dive into his book...|| If you’ve ever wondered...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List (+ Social media links!): https://sleekbio.com/gadflyacademy || Paul Kingsnorth’s new book, Against the Machine , is one of the most profound critiques of modern technological civilization. || This is why we have been taking a deep dive into his book...|| If you’ve ever wondered what went wrong with our relationship to technology, or how to reclaim...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List (+ Social media links!): https://sleekbio.com/gadflyacademy || Paul Kingsnorth’s new book, Against the Machine , is one of the most profound critiques of modern technological civilization. || This is why we have been taking a deep dive into his book...|| If you’ve ever wondered what went wrong with our relationship to technology, or how to reclaim...

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Merch Store is now open for a limited time! -> https://gadflyacademy.printful.me || 📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List (+ Social media links!): https://sleekbio.com/gadflyacademy || Paul Kingsnorth’s new book, Against the Machine , is one of the most profound critiques of modern technological civilization. || This is why, over the coming weeks and months, we are taking a deep div...

Merch Store is now open for a limited time! -> https://gadflyacademy.printful.me || 📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List (+ Social media links!): https://sleekbio.com/gadflyacademy || Paul Kingsnorth’s new book, Against the Machine , is one of the most profound critiques of modern technological civilization. || This is why, over the coming weeks and months, we are taking a deep div...

Merch Store is now open for a limited time! -> https://gadflyacademy.printful.me || 📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List (+ Social media links!): https://sleekbio.com/gadflyacademy || Paul Kingsnorth’s new book, Against the Machine , is one of the most profound critiques of modern technological civilization. || This is why, over the coming weeks and months, we are taking a deep div...

Merch Store is now open for a limited time! -> https://gadflyacademy.printful.me || 📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List (+ Social media links!): https://sleekbio.com/gadflyacademy || Paul Kingsnorth’s new book, Against the Machine , is one of the most profound critiques of modern technological civilization. || This is why, over the coming weeks and months, we are going to take a d...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List (+ Social media links!): https://sleekbio.com/gadflyacademy || Paul Kingsnorth’s new book, Against the Machine , is one of the most profound critiques of modern technological civilization. || This is why, over the coming weeks and months, we are going to take a deep dive into his book...please join us on Thursday evenings at 7:30pmEST for a live-st...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List (+ Social media links!): https://sleekbio.com/gadflyacademy || Paul Kingsnorth’s new book, Against the Machine , is one of the most profound critiques of modern technological civilization. || This is why, over the coming weeks and months, we are going to take a deep dive into his book...please join us on Thursday evenings at 7:30pmEST for a live-st...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List (+ Social media links!): https://sleekbio.com/gadflyacademy || Paul Kingsnorth’s new book, Against the Machine , is one of the most profound critiques of modern technological civilization. || This is why, over the coming weeks and months, we are going to take a deep dive into his book...please join us on Thursday evenings at 7:30pmEST for a live-st...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List (+ Social media links!):https://sleekbio.com/gadflyacademy ||Paul Kingsnorth’s new book, Against the Machine, is one of the most profound critiques of modern technological civilization. ||This is why, over the coming weeks and months, we are going to take a deep dive into his book...please join us on Thursday evenings at 7:30pmEST for a live-stream...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List at https://www. GadflyAcademy.com || In this episode, we explore the hidden value system of technology. Before we discuss how to structure our lives around human values, I share a long list of machine (technocratic) values that quietly dominate our society. || 🎧 Listen now to start spotting the machine values shaping your world... || 🎥 View podca...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List at https://www. GadflyAcademy.com || This episode unpacks the critical distinction between human values and technocratic ("machine") values . While human values are rooted in meaning, relationships, and our intrinsic nature, technocratic machine values prioritize efficiency, scalability, and control. || 🔔 Subscribe and share this episode with some...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List at https://www. GadflyAcademy.com || In this episode, we explore whether “agency” should be considered a true human value. Using our 8-question framework, we examine the benefits and limits of agency, its relationship to human flourishing, and its role in meaning, community, and responsibility. || Key Topics: || What agency really means || The tens...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List at https://www. GadflyAcademy.com || In this episode, we continue our exploration of the concept of human values. Using our eight-question system, I evaluate "agency," one of a list of 51 human values. || Which of our 51 human values are most important to you? Rate them using the checklist and share your insights with us! || 🎥 View podca...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List at https://www. GadflyAcademy.com || In this episode, we explore the critical distinction between human values and technocratic values . While some values help us flourish, others subtly erode our humanity. I introduce a 8 critical questions for identifying authentic human values and explain why this matters in today’s digital age. || Key Topics: |...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List at https://www. GadflyAcademy.com || What is the relationship between one's core values and one's capacity to avoid distraction? ||The secret to focus isn’t another productivity hack… it starts with asking the right questions: Who are you? What do you really value? What do you want? ||In my latest podcast, I consider the relationship between values...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List at https://www. GadflyAcademy.com || Attention is more than just focus — it’s the habit that shapes our entire lives. In this episode, we dig into why attention matters, how technology and the Attention Economy hijack it, and what we can do to reclaim control of our minds. || Why attention is the foundation of our lives || How habits shape our focu...

Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List at https://www. GadflyAcademy.com Finding it harder than ever to focus? 🤯 After 20 years of smartphones and social media, scientists are starting to uncover just how much our attention has changed — and the results aren’t good.📺 I just released a new video looking at some of the latest research on the Attention Crisis: "Why Your Brain Can’t Focus An...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List at https://www. GadflyAcademy.com || In this episode, Paul Kingsnorth discusses his worldview, what's happening in the world, and what we can do about it. THIS IS the first episode from my interview with acclaimed novelist, essayist, gentleman farmer, cultural critic, and Orthodox Christian, Paul Kingsnorth. || 🔔 SUBSCRIBE, please! || For more...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List at https://www. GadflyAcademy.com || Which dystopian prophecy was closer to reality: George Orwell's 1984 or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World? || Hear what Neil Postman had to say about these two dystopian works (in Postman's book, Amusing Ourselves to Death). (Also: OK...things look pretty bleak...what can we do about them?!) || View po...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List at https://www. GadflyAcademy.com || Neil Postman coined the term "media ecology" in 1968 to describe the new study of media (television, radio, etc.) and its effects on humans and society. He is a seminal figure in the critique of technology and a great place to begin to answer the question: how did we get here? || View podcast: https://...

📙 Download The How Did We Get Here? Reading List at https://www. GadflyAcademy.com || Welcome to the Gadfly Academy podcast, where everything we discuss has this as a guiding principle. Another guiding conviction is that we were all born into a huge social experiment, which began hundreds of years ago, and at the heart of which is a mechanistic anthropology that views humans as machines... || Vie...