The Disentanglement Podcast

44-Digital Artisanship

After rereading Matthew Crawford's The World Beyond Your Head, we consider in what ways computing and digital tools could actually serve us in growing authentic mastery in a very human-centered way, instead of pushing us around like the robot overlords they long to become.

43-If You Really Must Text

In which we discuss the pitfalls of communication by private text... but also, which app to use if you insist on doing it anyway.

42-Why Cryptocurrency Is Philosophically Interesting

In which Sara presses André to explain why cryptocurrency, and bitcoin specifically, seems to prompt enthusiasts to take more, not less, interest in the world around them, their local environs, and even religion, in a concerted effort to disentangle themselves from previously assumed verities.

41-Single Use Digital Devices

In which we discuss two new additions to our digital device collection that we think actually help in the disentanglement process.

40-The Converse of Addiction

In which we discuss the state, not of not being addicted to something you consume that compromises your resilience in the world, but the state of failing to consume something you need that to be resilient. Trust us, it makes more sense when you hear us talk about it.

39-Is Addiction the Right Term for Digital Disorders?

In which we explore the common use of "addiction" to describe damaging entanglements with digital media and devices, in conversation with these books:
Haidt, The Anxious Generation
Alter, Irresistible
Lembke, Dopamine Nation
Courtwright, The Age of Addiction

38-Second Steps in Degoogling

In which we detail our efforts to extract ourselves from certain Google systems, chiefly free email, calendar, drive, and the Chrome browser, replacing them with a Protonmail family account and the Brave browser.

37-The Virtues of an Annoying Smartphone

In which Mister André explains how he bought a Google Pixel for the precise purpose of deGoogling it, and what he has learned about smartphone use generally from the annoyances of going outside the privacy-sucking mainstream.

36-The Revenge of Analog

In which we discuss one of our favorite recent reads, The Revenge of Analog by David Sax, as depicting a positive alternative to many of the toxic digital entanglements of our time.

35-We're Back!

In which André and Sara, still pretending to be their very-bad-spy-alter-egos, tell you why you haven't heard from them in about 10 months, what they've been up to, and what to look forward to on Season 2 of the Disentanglement Podcast.