Welcome to Listen To This, a new section within Welcome Wanderer. Each day I send out one of my favorite podcast episodes or audiobooks that moved me, challenged me, or simply made life a little brighter.
Podcast of the day: Design Matters with Debbie Millman | Seth Godin | Jan 13 2025 | 1 hr
Why To Listen:
I adore Seth Godin! He’s been a consistent voice in my life over the past few years. He is a deep thinker, a change-maker, and a person who’s invested his life into making this world a better place for future generations. He helps me to move outside my rigid belief systems and thought patterns and embrace my unique creative expression. This interview with Debbie Millman about his latest book, This Is Strategy: Make Better Plans (Create a Strategy to Elevate Your Career, Community & Life), is worth your time!Favorite quote:
“Tactics are steps, instructions, bullet points. There was a strategy long before you decided to do that at all. Strategy is a philosophy of becoming. It’s what will the me of 2 years from now be glad I did today. And if the world didn’t change strategy and tactics would be very simple and very similar, but the world changes not just when you do things, but when other people do things. So we cannot predict the future.”
-Seth Godin
Podcast of the day (because I couldn’t pick just one!): The Gray Area with Sean Illing | The Screens Between Us | Jan 13 2025 | 49 min
Why To Listen:
Who doesn’t need to listen to this one? I think it’s a good and healthy idea to take a closer look at whether or not our screen time benefits our lives, and if so at what cost? Sean interviews author Christine Rosen about what she’s seeing in our culture and I’m definitely going to order her book, The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World.Favorite quote:
“Particularly in the United States, we have lacked an ability to distinguish between the new and the improved. You hear ‘new and improved’ that’s how every new thing is marketed. Quite frankly, when you study history, you understand that not every new thing is an improvement. Sometimes important things are destroyed by the new thing and reckoning with that is something that we haven’t, as a culture, been very good at.”
“We all do rely on these tools they have opened up amazing possibilities in terms of what we can do. So I think that we have to be just more thoughtful about what we’re giving up when we embrace the technology…
Most of our culture, most of our discussion around technology is oriented around the new is better and the new will allow to deny the realities of your own physical limits and the world’s physical limits and that’s not true.”
-Christine Rosen
I’ll be back tomorrow with another favorite listen! Thank you for being here! Let me know which one you will tune into first…
-Charissa
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