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Oh your name is Vlad but you don't have an accent. So how does this work? Like I

can't really put you in a box like you were so polite so like you but but you

were born in Russia like what's happening I whenever i get asked the

question i'm like where are you from I would I would sort of hesitate how do

I answer it eventually it got me thinking about this notion that maybe

it's actually much more simpler than

that maybe I'm just from Planet Earth really

the simplest thing is just when you get asked where are you from just say I'm

from the same places you

hey guys welcome to another episode of digital Nomad TV we're coming to you

from the 360 sky bar on the Nomad cruise we are on day 11

I believe so we only have one more day on the ship we're sailing from Europe to

Brazil and then we're gonna be landing in Brazil the day after tomorrow so I'm

sitting here with Vlad Glebov and he gave an amazing presentation on how

digital nomads can basically change the future and help change the world and I

was just so touched by his talk it resonated with me so much that I wanted

to bring him on the show to kind of discuss his image of the future and how

digital nomads and remote workers are a part of it so welcome to digital Nomad

TV Vlad thank you for having me so tell us a little bit about your your

background and how you became a digital nomad because my audience is always

really interested in learning how people transition from a conventional lifestyle

to like a remote work nomadic lifestyle seven years ago now I started a solar

energy company so we developed large-scale commercial sized solar

projects in in Canada and then about two years ago I more or less had an exit

from that company which was a huge success for me at that time

and I realized that sort of accumulating material possessions wasn't really

making me happy and so I wanted to explore and find out what else is out

there and decided to scale down all of my material possessions down to a

carry-on in that case at that time I was actually a suitcase and then I scaled

down to a carry-on a little bit later and a backpack and took off and wanted

to travel the world and explore and learn and find out what what's out there

was possible and how many years now have you been an entrepreneur traveling

around the world so it's been it's been two years okay when did you start

getting interested in this concept of oh you call it earth first so like kind of

changing your worldview from that of typical countries with borders and

normal immigration patterns to a more comprehensive global home for citizens

instead of being divided by countries I'd say for me it's it's been something

that has been an ongoing question since really the day of my birth I was born in

a in a small town or a village in in Russia where answer this question like

where am i from and and so I I did a DNA test and I try to figure out all of my

ancestral roots and of course the story got so complicated because it turns out

my DNA and most people DNA's are are from your just from so many different

places so many different backgrounds so many different population groups moving

through I ended up just sort of figuring out okay where do

I feel home but I you know I couldn't really you know am i between Russian

Canada do I land in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean like it just didn't make

sense and so eventually it got me thinking about this notion that maybe

it's actually much more simpler than that

maybe I'm just from Planet Earth and the moment I started to travel the moment I

really got out and spend some time in California and San Francisco and then

travel to Europe I began to notice how common

how many similar err similarities we all have yeah all have something in common

all of us and that really resonated with me that really felt more like home for

me and at some point it just became natural to say well I'm from Planet

Earth of course that's where I'm from that's where I've always been it's where

all my ancestors are from and that's where my home is yeah that makes so much

sense to me like after having traveled a lot because it got to the point where

people were asking that's the first thing they asked you was like where are

you from what do you do and it's like well I'm from Florida but I haven't

lived there since I was practically a teenager in college and so first it

started like I'm from this city in Florida but then I spent more years in

another city and then it went like okay well I'm from Florida but I've been

living in Costa Rica for eight years and now it's like I don't actually have a

home base but I'm from Florida and I live everywhere and and you start to

realize really how like it is a way of identifying people and like getting a

kind of a perspective like you were saying putting them in a box but it also

is a label and it's just kind of reflective of how the world is organized

so it started to when you said like I'm from Planet Earth like I've always said

that and I've even tried to tag things and social media like why isn't there an

option for your location just being earth-like why does it have to be a

specific place and then I saw this shirt from Stella

like I have to buy this because it really just sums it up like birthplace

earth yeah and I think you know before recent modern history everyone was just

from Earth before there were borders and the more I travel the more I think that

borders can become like quite silly and quite arbitrary and and instead of

seeing differences between people I think there was a distinct turning point

where I started seeing how similar everyone is like everyone is a human

being everybody has all human qualities and traits and characteristics in common

and the only things that differentiate us are what makes us unique as

individuals like personality and things like that and then also a cultural

differences but everyone's still like you know how they say everyone puts

their pants on one leg at a time but like everyone likes all of the same

things everyone likes to eat everyone has to sleep like yeah it just makes so

much sense while you've been traveling around and I'm kind of getting this more

comprehensive world view but what are some of the problems that have become

more pronounced now that you've kind of removed yourself geographically speaking

from your most recent home country and have been like a citizen of the world

like what do you think are the biggest challenges facing the human race right

now there are challenges everywhere of course they're local and specific to a

specific place but there are also challenges that

we all share as people living on planet earth and perhaps the easiest way to

think of it as let's say one of one of the challenges that we face we know

there has been a previous time in which an asteroid has hit planet Earth so no

matter what country you're from if an asteroid hits planet Earth we would all

be effective in some way it depends on the size of asteroid where it lands but

it would really disrupt all of us yeah so therefore it begs the begs the

question of should we not be tracking all of the near-earth objects that might

potentially be headed our way and should we not have some sort of earth defense

system against these potential objects hitting our planet because we have

country defense systems yeah we have country defence system should we have an

earth defense system against potential objects hitting us that seems like a

no-brainer to me yeah it didn't work out too well for the dinosaurs the fact that

they weren't able to get to that point so something that we should consider and

so there must be some buddy that's tracking all of these near-earth objects

I thought and it turns out that there are but it's underfunded and the

majority of the near-earth objects were not tracking I think the latest estimate

that I saw that I've seen is that there's something like at least 17,000

near-earth objects that we're not tracking we're not sure of so and and

who knows what else is out there right so that that is a probably if you if you

were to categories a problem that affects everyone yeah that's probably

the easiest one to grasp the other urgent one of course there are many

urgent ones but one one is that I've noticed because I began to explore

oceans in different places as I really began to notice how much plastic is in

the ocean how much of it is in the ocean and this is a common thing again we

there may be somebody dumping garbage in Asia and it could land all the way in

Mexico mm-hmm and in fact I found out that something like at least one garbage

truck full of plastic is being dumped every minute so it's it's a huge problem

and it's a huge problem not only for all the fish and all of the people all the

animals that are living in the ocean but it's actually a huge problem for us as

well because we we like the ocean and it's something that we should take care

of I mean another obvious one of course is

that you many people have heard about is climate change

yeah this is it does not matter if you live in the United States it does not

matter if you live in Europe when the effects of climate change begin to take

place it will affect everybody now of course it will affect everybody

differently but it's going to be discrete a disruptive thing for most of

us so we have these like major challenges facing the world that are so

urgent that they need to be really taken care of yesterday we have oceans full of

plastic we have climate change challenges we have always the potential

of nuclear war because we have nuclear weapons on the planet I don't I don't

know about you guys but I've always wondered why do the political leaders

and decision makers always tend to choose things that are not in the

general interest of the population or of the world population so of their

domestic national population and then of the world as a child this never made

sense to me and I never fully understood why politics was such a contentious

topic so can you explain to our viewers why do countries and governments make

the choices they do that seem counterproductive that seemed to be

adding fuel to the fire when it comes to global emergencies while then also

focusing a lot on like country first domestic policies that seem to

contradict the interests of the world at large like how why is that dynamic and

play in this case I look at it from the perspective of

a game theory and in this case we there is a prediction that's being made and

maybe maybe the best way to explain this concept is to really just give an

example so let's say we let's say you imagine an island and on this island

there are only two countries occupying half of the island each and each country

really wants to take care of its people and so once the grow its economy instead

wants to create industry it wants to incentivize innovation new technologies

and of course through the course of that they consume energy and they produce

pollution one day the leaders of both countries decide to meet up and have

create an agreement to to control and reduce the amount of pollution of those

two countries produce and if that sounds like and they reach an agreement it

makes a lot of sense similar to what of course the international community did

during the Paris climate change agreement and previous agreements that

have taken place it sounds like that could be the end of

it like everything is great except that of course it doesn't work out that way

each country goes back home and realizes that if if we as a country pull out of

that agreement or if we cheat we will have some kind of a payoff because there

is a cost of course to reducing pollution yeah and if we just pollute a

little bit longer than that other country we will have slightly better

economy we will have slightly more newer products and maybe a stronger military

and the other country of course also has smart policy makers and they come back

home and they say well wait a minute we will be worse off if the other country

pollutes a little bit longer so we should pollute a little bit longer and

so what ends up happening and what game theory predicts in this case is that we

have a the Nash Equilibrium here which is pollute pollute is what we're what

both countries end up choosing in the end instead of the socially optimal

outcome which is that you neither country both countries should reduce

pollution right and when we so that's the theory how is it working out in

practice when we look at the g20 and the Paris climate change agreement that's

been reached there is a huge gap between what was agreed upon and what's actually

being implemented at a policy level and worse what's actually being what what

are actually being what's actually being projected because just because the

country has a certain policy doesn't mean that that policy will be

implemented right so it's really not the fault of any

individual policymaker in my view or any individual country they are it's a

systemic problem of dividing our civilization into countries yeah

creating these borders and each country acting its own self-interest and of

course when you add short-term thinking for your election cycles or something

like that that that really reprioritized the interests that they're trying to

look after the problem I think and this is the idea that that I've been sort of

have been mulling over for a few years now and I propose that this cruise is

that if we divide our civilization into countries they will ultimately try to

look after each country and it creates an us under them

yeah and then we get trapped by this game theory and it's unsustainable for

our civilization to continue to divide ourselves in this way

keep in mind that this is not this is a relatively new phenomenon like having

countries the way that they currently are it's a very new thing in our 200,000

plus year history and we're running this experiment but if we just look a little

bit further you know look 10 years 20 years 50 years 100 years ahead how long

can this continue to work and the problem is that with these global

challenges of climate change AI lack of AI regulation something that

Elon Musk talks about a lot disruptive biotech asteroids ocean plastic you name

it these are problems that countries unfortunately just cannot protect us

from great they cannot solve these problems acting in their own

self-interest but that's really the problem that I've realized that exists

and so we have to think about how to fix that

yeah that really explains a lot especially the nuclear race as well like

if countries don't have their own nuclear weapons then if there are

nuclear weapons on the planet then they don't really have a defense against

nuclear weapons so it's like everybody's arming themselves to defend themselves

but if there weren't any weapons at all then there would be no need to have

nuclear weapons in the first place but that's how things tend to escalate

whether it's pollution you know economic development people trying to to raise

the the economic well-being of their country and having to pollute and

destroy the planet in order to get there if they don't do that then they're

always going to lag behind the the more developed countries that have already

been through that process so we can see this playing out in real time and I

guess the big difference is that now things are happening so fast technology

is evolving exponentially in innovation and maybe this border system

that worked for us for a hundred years or so is maybe not as relevant when

everybody has the economic ability and in technological ability basically to

travel around the world very cheaply and very easily so this possibility really

wasn't available until the last decade or so for people to be able to fly all

around the planet so quickly and now we have you know can

possibly go to other planets or or go out into the into the atmosphere and

come back down in China in ten minutes or whatever like there's so many things

on the horizon that I really don't think that that our countries and governments

can adapt to and to be fair to to countries like it's it's worked out

pretty well so far I mean if you subtract all the world

wars and all the people that work have died as a result but you know we are

where we are now and overall things are seem to be pretty good right so it's

it's not but it the we have not really our civilization has not faced a problem

like climate change before we have not faced something like

the possibility of general AI yeah so so new technologies that are only have been

in existence during the 21st century or these possibilities won't even exist

instant in the 21st century have a system of dividing our civilization

that's been going on since for the last 11 thousand years let's say but it's

really not equipped to deal with these new things and so it's been working

pretty well perhaps you know somebody disagree because of all the world wars

and all that but how do we go forward from here right because changing of is

inevitable and these challenges are coming to us whether we like them or not

so how do we address them and I I think the way to address them is to is to

really put the interest of planet Earth above the interest of individual country

ok there's a lot of overwhelming problems affecting the planet right now

that people can feel a bit overwhelmed and scattered and they think of

pollution and political issues and possible war and things like that what

are some practical things that people can do in their everyday lives to make

an impact so that we don't all feel like we're watching some kind of slow-motion

train wreck because I know a lot of people also think like well we're we're

basically out of time the ocean levels are gonna rise and you know we're all

fucked or whatever like what can people do in in their daily lives to to help

change the perspective or help make some kind of impact I want to just talk a

little bit about this this feeling right yeah hopelessness yeah and

this-this-this potential because it is a kind of a barrier to any any action it

can feel a little bit overwhelming and like you said just let's just give up

and have a good time all while we're at it this is how I have thought about it

for myself is like this Eve even if the world like even if we're all doomed

worst case scenario we are all doomed

it is still like it is still reasonable to try and avoid that consequence and if

there's some chance that our civilization can survive and and the

best possible futures is is available for us then even more reason to do so

yeah so even if but even if it's like we're all about to jump off a cliff it's

still like any you're you're sitting like let's say you are an airplane and

and you feel like the airplane is going to crash and there's a person beside you

and they're there like really concerned are you gonna hold their hand or you

gonna yell like we're all gonna die and I would just like I would take your hand

I'd be like oh it's gonna be okay yeah so it still makes sense it still

makes total sense to do that but but actually there's a there is a whole

future possible for us that does not involve

you know us perishing or some kind of doomsday like scenario right and so the

question is how do we actually get there and the trick here is that while the

problems are complex but the basic the basic problem the most at its core is

actually quite simple and and it's really about how do we dissolve the game

that these two countries are playing on this island yeah and the reason why

these two countries are playing a game is because there isn't us and them

mentality the moment that happens that's when that game theory begins to switch

on yeah however if every person living on that

Island was acting in the best interest of the island and not of the specific

country yes then there is no more game to be played right and so this this is

the same solution that can work for the whole of the whole planet that if we

simply reprioritize how we think of the world and in what interests we act so

priority number one earth earth first yes and then after that it

could be country first it could be city first it could be whatever tribe you are

associated with first and the nice thing about this is that you don't have to

give anything up yeah you can be quite proud and celebrate your ancestral roots

and and your culture and all these things there's no need to give up any of

it right but the only thing that I do invite all your listeners is to whenever

they are asked this question of where are you from where are you from really

like consider that question really think about it and imagine that you're from

Planet Earth imagine that earth is your home and

imagine if that this is the only reality you've ever known and it's been true for

a long time like imagine if you went to the movie theater science fiction movie

theater one day and you saw and you went back to your friends you know like

friends I saw this movie it was super unrealistic like this civilization

decided to divide themselves into these mythical countries these invisible

borders and they it was so important that those mythical places were more

important to them than the planet as a whole and they were destroying

themselves it seemed like a really unrealistic bad scenario and your

friends would laugh and say well that's silly that could never be the case of

course because once because once you have that mind shift yeah you begin to

see clearly what you should be doing and so I can get I can get a little more

practical but for those people who wanted to know like what are the next

steps especially some of the people out there who are wondering like what should

I do with my life how should I best contribute to changing

the world and I would say I would encourage people to really consider so

imagine this future where we are we are all earth first or we are earth the

earthians or earth citizens or global citizens

what are some of the needs that this that that this requires what are some of

the potential obstacles what is what are some of the ways we can make it easier

for people to take on that way of thinking and actually live that in their

everyday life mm-hmm because we don't actually need political parties to

change we don't actually even need countries to

change all we need to do is just live that lifestyle ourselves individually

and spread it for it to actually impact the whole planet so if your if your

potential entrepreneur ask yourself okay earth first

how does my business impact the planet maybe it's not impacting the planet at

all well if I really care about the planet maybe I need to start a new

business or consider changing my business so that it does benefit the

planet somehow yeah if you're a marketer maybe you have a really smart idea for

how to market this concept better if you are an investor you know what sort of

investments are you making are those investments benefiting planet earth if

you're a real estate developer I mean you name it any profession any

specialization that you may have if you're a blogger you know if you're an

Instagram or YouTube like what you're doing here how is it impacting planet

earth first so it's like really step into that role like imagine you know

there's a role there's a person that is a global citizen that is an earth

citizen and then really just like step into it right and then what does that

mean for you and how can you implement that on a daily basis and the simple

thing really the simplest thing is just when you get asked where are you from

just say I'm from the same place as you planet Earth

yeah I really like that because you can notice from a micro level to a macro

level how these identities play out so everything from a high school football

rivalry like one town in another town next to each other to like one state

versus another state or even like let's use high school as a good example so you

can have like high school football and then you can have college football where

it's like rivalries within the state so you go from local town to within the

state and then you have like a national championship where it's like Nebraska

versus Florida or whatever but then you see national pride so you see in the

Olympics for example everyone's on the team of their country but then when it

comes to voting in an election we divide again and it's like Republicans versus

Democrats or whatever so it's always like a competition in a rivalry but

without having like the bigger picture in mind sometimes that can be lost in

like the immediate competition or the immediate fight between ideologies or or

what-have-you so I really like thinking of Earth first from just an individual

perspective instead of like what can I do to just make a lot of money for me or

for my family of thinking like what can I do to make a living on the planet of

course but still Express Who I am what my natural talents are what my creative

ideas are in a way that not only benefits me and allows me to exist on

the planet but also contribute something to the world

puts the needs of the planet and of the global population first so it's not just

a like zero-sum game but everybody is contributing what they want to bring

into the world at a time when it's actually possible yes so imagine if if

everyone cared as much about the planet as they did about United States yeah

it's like I care about United you know I care like I five was a citizen of the

United States I can just admit I'm not but I just can imagine what that can

feel like I don't even need to be told how such a citizen should act in some

ways like the majority of people can kind of just get it right yeah we you

know but imagine if the same mentality was just expanded one level higher right

which is now I don't care about the whole planet and and what will happen in

that moment is that when you have that mentality shift it's not that the United

States needs to dissolve it's just that the borders just kind of become a little

bit less important I mean a great example we just we just seen the World

Cup not two not long ago and of course people really really cheer for those for

each country that that is competing in the World Cup but of course when you

look at the demographics of the people actually playing on each team they have

a very diverse background through all kinds of places in fact more than half

the team can be from all over the world really yeah but it's kind of fun to

cheer for this flag it's going to time to cheer for the identity so that it you

don't need to lose that but it but you'd also don't need to fight a war over it

yes right like

and and we can actually share our culture's and we can actually share our

skillsets and celebrate our uniqueness and diversity while being united by this

idea that we're all from the same place we're all from from planet earth and

whatever I do will affect people from all over the world and if I don't do

something that also affects people and I understand this notion that I should

just really take care of myself my family

I completely understand it and if you want to take care of your family if you

want to take care of yourself consider the global challenges that your family

and you face yeah can you solve can you protect you and your family from an

asteroid strike can you protect you and your family from climate change can you

protect you and your family from from general AI taking over the world

thank you on just trying to warn us about yeah can you protect you and your

family if there's a nuclear strike somewhere and of course the answer is no

right we need we in order for a civilization to continue to prosper and

exist it requires global cooperation but

here's some good news okay here's some good news it took us 200 thousand years

or so something like that to get to a place where eleven thousand years ago we

began to cooperate in unfairly large settlements yeah self-organizing well

organizing community yeah beyond let's say next tribe yes beyond the

hunter-gatherer tribes yeah and the way we did it is we created myths and these

myths helped us cooperate at a much larger scale we started to have larger

larger settlements and now we have a cut we have some countries over a billion

people and somehow they're cooperating together in the interests of that

country so to go from a country of cooperation of a billion people around a

myth of a country to cooperating at a level of seven and a half billion people

at the level of Earth planet Earth that's not that big of a leap yeah it's

it's a much smaller leak it could happen very quickly and the way it could happen

one scenario is that I would imagine let's say we need 10 billion

conversations 10 billion conversations like where are you from

it's I'm from Planet Earth oh what's that about like tell me you know I will

identify from that and those kind of conversations once you hear that more

than once you can't ever go back right like you can't ever unhear that right

once you once you create that additional circle and you prioritize earth first

it's hard to go it's hard to go back so 10 billion conversations well what is it

gonna take to have 10 billion conversations within one year well it

turns out it's actually only 10 million people who on average have that

conversation 3 times a day or a thousand times a year now at this conference you

and I have had the where you from conversation probably 200 300 times yeah

so where do you like well on our way and I've been answering that question for at

least a year yeah and like I'm from Planet Earth

and so if our if the people are watching this video if all they do is they just

have this conversation every time they get asked from now on for the next year

I am from Planet Earth here's why that conversation if 10

billion 10 million people which is really like a small quite a smaller

actually that means within one year we're gonna have that conversation 10

billion times and of course what's happening now is that a lot of countries

in and we're seeing this in in written all over here really in the US

especially and of course in Brazil most recently it's country first country

first country first so people are sitting around the bar or

the kitchen table and they're saying hey should country come first well I love my

country of course I have so many warm and fuzzy memories in my country of

course we should take care of our country country first done right no

problem well

if we have if the same commerce the type of conversation happens but it's like

you know I love my planet I love the ocean

I love the civilization that we've we've created I love all of the all the

amazing beautiful spots in this planet I would like our civilization to keep

going should we put planet earth first since

that's where all the countries are located anyway that's what everyone has

in common like the common good is for the planet

and if one person's or if one civilizations country is first or one

person's religion is first by default everyone else has to come fall in line

after that so yeah I think just like as a takeaway for everybody to still have

country pride and think about your nationality and where you come from and

all the different ancestors you have but to also kind of think of it on a bigger

picture level as like earth first country second because every country

can't be first that's when we get into this zero-sum game and game theory and

people you know trying to one-up each other so yeah just thinking of like

everybody is on the planet we have this one common good and one common priority

to protect our global home and then you know the rest of it can come after yeah

and and and if you just have that conversation on average three times a

day for a whole year

you know eventually you will get 10 billion conversations yeah and at some

point there is just no turning back right you'll you'll bump into somebody

in Mexico or you bump to somebody in in France and you'll ask them where are you

from and they'll say I'm from Planet Earth

yeah oh that's working and then political parties will reflect that

viewpoint businesses will affect that people point and we'll have a whole

shift and all of a sudden we have our future looks prosperous yeah

how do we feel about working together on cooperating on climate change when we

know that most the people are thinking earth first yes yeah it's a lot more

hopeful isn't it all right so this is I think there is something to hope for

there is something to look forward to and it really is just as simple as

country first or earth first earth first yeah have those conversations put that

into your life really step into that role what does that mean for you what

how do you how can you express that worldview yeah and then take and then

from then on it just it just continues to spread and before we know it this is

something that it's unimaginable like the people in the future will look back

and be like I can't imagine living in a world where it's country first right it

just does not even make sense right it just feels wrong like it doesn't feel

intuitive and that's we'll get there eventually

I believe if we are to survive as a civilization yeah that's good I think so

as well I completely agree and I love what you did in the talk where you had

everybody envision what it would be like if you were born onto a planet where

everybody had this mentality in this mindset of country first and if we were

taught that from a very young age like from babies on up that's all it would

take really it's just that mind mind set

shift because right now what we're all fighting is that we've all been raised

country first family first you know individual first whether were

collectivist societies or individualist societies it still been like that on

some level of us versus them and so as we grow older we have to kind of retrace

our steps reject certain models that we've been

brought up to believe and kind of unlearn some things and replace that

with a new outlook or a new belief or a new kind of life mission that makes more

sense and as more intuitive to us and I think that's why you're talkin ated with

me so much is because after traveling around the world and meeting so many

amazing people it's really hard to think like no matter what even though I've met

thousands of people in 60 different countries I still think that my country

needs to be the priority know like you start to just have empathy

compassion for everybody equally and feel like you're on the same team as

everyone on planet earth and it's such an amazing time to be alive where we can

actually identify with that belief and then put that into practicality in our

lives and our choices as consumers and in our businesses with the Internet to

be able to basically create whatever we can think of so thank you for sharing

this perspective with me with everyone on the cruise and with the Internet and

if you guys want to learn more about the work that Vlad is doing where can people

find you on social media so this whole like earth first concept is very new the

thing that I really believe though is that it's really not about me each

person is to is to take this message and apply to themselves and really just own

that yeah and and and I think if that because that's the way to actually get

there but you know I do have an Instagram if

people want to follow sort of my travels it's VladGlife is my Instagram and

Vlad Glebov as me on Facebook so all your listeners are getting are seeing

like at the the very first steps of this this concept it's writing in this in

this way sneak peek sneak peek of potentially the future if if you know I

think we should all end book but everybody really can can own it right

everybody like no but there's no like there's no earth president right like

everybody is already an earth citizen right yeah you to wave a magic wand or

you don't need you don't need to follow like some Instagram thing it's like you

already are born on planet earth you've been

born a planet Earth this whole time yeah Oh in here already own your earth

passport guys your earth I don't you don't need a document to say you're from

Earth like we just are but somewhere along the line we forgot that or or it

became a second priority but yeah let's bring it back let's just keep keep earth

first and I know I'm definitely going to start having this conversation with

people that I've always been like well I'm from here but then and the whole

explanation which is a story so it's just replacing your individual story not

losing your whole identity but replacing that with something something bigger or

adding on to it like I am from here but I'm also a citizen of Earth and I really

like what you said like it's really adding on to it yeah

because I think for me or for some people who it could be a bit of a

struggle to replace something but it's much easier to just add something yeah

right because it's like well and actually you know a lot of people are

just curious about well where were you born where did you travel how was your

yeah you know maybe it's like oh you're you you have some roots in Florida it

looks like that's great they want to relate to you yeah and there's nothing

wrong with that of course everything is it's all part of the conversation but

but and and and if you say oh and and you consider yourself an earth citizen

or an Earthian or being from planet Earth first that of course says a lot

about you too it's a lot about your mentality it actually describes your

state of being so I think it's a it's a great way to learn about each other that

that I really I'm this is how I think this is my worldview and so here

indicates so much in that conversation and it's all positive right it's all

we're all you can and and different and special so I think it's just a in my

experience has been a fun conversation to have

and I've every 99% of the people with whom we've had this conversation were

last year and I've been having it probably on average like 20 times a day

just cause of all the travels in all events I do is that most people are like

yeah me too yeah I get it yeah awesome well thanks

so much blood and thank you guys for tuning in what do you think about this

if you identify as an earth first citizen before seeing this video or has

it made you think about things in a different way let us know in the

comments and make sure to subscribe for weekly episodes of digital nomad TV bye

for now from the equator we're in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean passing

over the equator right now so goodbye from the middle of planet Earth

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Why do Digital Transformations fail? - Duration: 1:37.

hey welcome to winning digital transformations, your 90 second leadership

perspectives. Did you know that 70% of all digital transformations fail

according to independent studies by McKinsey and the research group IDC. Why?

And, what can you do about it

The answer might surprise you. You see it's not about innovation nor is it

about just technology it's about discipline. Discipline in setting the

right goals and discipline in executing against digital transformation. You see

digital transformation is all about getting your enterprise ready to thrive

in the fourth Industrial Revolution that involves setting your goals correctly as

one of three things. Creating entirely new digital business models or creating

a digital core of operations of the enterprise or about digitally enabled

products. That is not automation that is transformation. Secondly, digital

transformation involves projects being executed with totally different

procedures and methodologies than has historically been done in the enterprise

that is missing and that's why I digital transformations fail.

So, what do you do about it firstly be much more disciplined in setting the

right goals success isn't about a few projects it's about systemically and

sustainably transforming the entire enterprise. Secondly, be much more

rigorous in reimagining and executing the transformation. Fix that and that's

how you will win Digital Transformation

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Creating a Digital Front Door for Connecticut State Government - Duration: 1:16.

So I spent the last 18 years leading organizations that use technology to improve the world around us.

And so I'm now really excited to be joining this new Lamont administration because I think

we have enormous opportunity to use technology to improve how we run the state and the services

we provide to our citizens and businesses.

You know, the state's made a lot of progress over the years, but we still have a lot of

our transactions that are based on printing out paper forms, filling them out, mailing

them in, or even worse, having to come to one of our offices and wait in line.

Today people expect a more modern digital experience, like if they're shopping online

or searching for information.

So we're going to be investing in the coming years to modernize and re-engineer a lot of

the systems that we use to provide citizens with a more modern approach to transact with

the state government on their own time - nights, evenings, weekends - with a more user-friendly approach.

And so when we do that, we're not just gonna be saving people time, but we're also gonna

be saving taxpayer dollars because when you move offline transactions online, you can

typically reduce the cost by about 75%.

So there's a big budget benefit here as well.

So there's a lot of exciting stuff to work on, that's just one example, but we're putting

together a great team to get it done.

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DIGITALEUROPE Digital Manufacturing Executive Council - Duration: 2:59.

I mean, it's the biggest sector we have in Europe and we have a huge competitive

advantage in that sector and it is a sector that is changing extremely rapidly.

It means that the new jobs of the future are, to a high extent, created there.

The growth is created there.

Competitiveness is created there.

But also, our digital standards on how we want to work with data,

how we want to work with competitiveness globally.

So, I think the topic of digital manufacturing

is one of the key cornerstones for the welfare in Europe and one of the key tasks

is to leverage all the activities we have on the national base and put

together all our ideas and all our work in an overarching activity in Europe.

Technology innovation happens through a lot of testing our technologies,

proof-of-concepts, pilots, etc. And I think we have come to a point now where we

have a pretty good foundation in the marketplace

Digital Manufacturing means that you digitalise the analogous industry so

to make for a factory a smart factory, to make for a plant a smart plant.

And second, that you introduce a digital economy based on big data analysis

coming from the operation technology devices out of the shop floor in the

factories and plants.

That is a challenge we have to face and that is

what we have to work on in the next years.

Well, first of all it's very

important that Europe acknowledges that the digital wave that is going to

manufacturing is really an important one.

And it's very good to see that in the European agenda,

this is put forward so that's the very first thing.

So the acknowledgement is there. But now, we have to build upon the experience

and the legacy we have in Europe in manufacturing to really transform

ourselves to remain - or to become again - very competitive or the leader in the

world when it comes to new ways of manufacturing.

This is the first platform ever where we bring together both tech companies and

manufacturing companies as a sparing partner for the EU Commission,

the Parliament and not least also for the Member States.

So, it's of huge importance to us.

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Digital Minimalism with Cal Newport - Duration: 41:40.

hi its Jill Schlesinger and on this episode of Jill on money we are going to

find the key to living well in a high-tech world the answer may surprise

you you have all these things on your phone

they're all collaborate for your attention you have some explanation for

each here's the reason why I downloaded that or here's what I could do with this

but the overall negative cost of having your attention constantly be pulled out

constantly be manipulated it's far outweigh the sum of all those little

benefits they bring you welcome to the Jill on Money podcast I

am Jill Schlesinger and I have such a great treat today because I've been a

fangirl of this guest for a while his name is Cal Newport I kind of fell in

love with him when he wrote a book called deep work his newest book is

called digital minimalism choosing a focused life in a noisy world when we

are through with this interview I want you to reassess how you are using social

media and all of your communication tools it will blow your mind

so here's our interview with Cal Newport you're listening to Jill on money with

Jill Schlesinger ok this is so exciting for me I'm a little bit of a fangirl Cal

Newport live in the studio welcome to the program of course thanks for having

me so we start the show with a very specific question and that is what is

the best financial or career decision you've ever made oh that's interesting

well probably the best career decision was all the way back as an undergrad

computer science major and was trying to figure out do I want to go into industry

so I had a job offer from Microsoft so stock and good salary or do I want to go

to grad school mm-hmm very little salary no stock options but the a idea I had

was if I go to grad school I will have enough flexibility that I can keep

writing books while continuing that can do my computer science education that's

interesting because there was also a certain amount of you could sort of have

a nice steady stream of income if you kind

made it through and got on a tenure-track but also indulge your

creative side and be really have excitement around that and and find your

passion that's awesome yeah it worked out well and also it gives you this

balance so if let's say the academic life is grinding you down you can take

some refuge in the writing and then if you go through a stage when the writing

is grinding you down you can take some refuge in the academic and I could

bounce back and forth and sort of self modulate it that's great it worked I

first became familiar with you when you wrote a book called deep work and it

kind of blew my mind so can you just outline a little bit of the thesis of

deep work and then maybe we can talk about how that may have led to your

current new book digital minimalism well they're definitely connected so deep

work in substance was talking about some of the unexpected consequences of

technology in the workplace and the argument it was making is that we are

undervalue heed focus so we're under valuing what you get a sustained

concentration and we were over valuing convenience of let's say flexible

communication or accessibility and so the argument was if you're an individual

or organization that cultivates the ability to focus intensely during work

you would have this huge competitive advantage because almost no one else was

doing it when you started writing that what year

was that about probably 2014 is what I started to get serious at the research

for that so already we had the iPhone out for seven years we have lots of

different interruptions but the focus part of that we've always been

interrupted by different things in our lives I mean email or the phone way back

when so what is it that you prescribed in deep work that you have found has has

really yielded great upside for people who need to focus well even the

vocabulary was a big deal for a lot of people the shallow work which is the

emails and the meetings and the putting together the PowerPoint slides is

different that the deep work which is the sustained concentration and that

when you make the claim that it's the deep work that actually moves to needle

that's what actually is going to push you ahead in your career or gonna raise

the profit of the company while the shallow work is just what keeps the

lights on it's the logistical work that keeps

things going and noting that those are two different things so it's not just

enough to say I'm busy or that I I work really hard I listed the office all day

that you actually have to start thinking what

type of work I'm doing just adding those terms to the efforts that people did in

the office I think really helps people rethink okay what am I actually doing

here frenzy is not enough you know the actual type of activity matters and

focus is producing the value and what's interesting I just interviewed Daniel

pink who wrote a book called when and he talks about doing deep work at specific

periods in the day which may be different for every individual did you

find that also it is different but what they shared Kabat is a commitment to

having actual systems for how they schedule it add rituals surrounding the

actual deep work because it's actually really difficult it's a big ask of the

human braid to say I were to give sustained attention especially if

something that's abstract or symbolic like this is this is a big ask it's not

something that you're gonna feel like you're in the mood to do it's not

something that you easily slip into so serious deep workers have these

scheduling philosophies this is what I do my deep work could be different

between what you do or I do but it's clear and then they have these rituals

that surround that okay how do I coerce my braids it's you actually enter this

mode of sustained concentration on something abstract so that is really

common and what do you do to drown out everything else so you don't put your

email on you turn off your phone what else

yeah well it's key of the definition of deep work that et distracted me just a

longer deep work so even the quick glance is only every 15 minutes still

doesn't count if you're looking at it box at all if you're glassy-eyed a phone

at all it doesn't count so that's the hard and fast rule we have for deep work

is that it has to have zero distractions your ticket needs to be on the one thing

only that one thing you get in your sustained concentration because we have

a lot of research to shows what kills you in concentration is not multitasking

it's the contexts which eat so even if you just context switch for a minute to

look at an inbox you're gonna pay a cognitive price for a long time after

that and so we got the message maybe around 2010 or so that pure multitasking

doesn't work so if I'm on the phone and answered email while trying to write

something difficult I'm not doing any of them well the subtle issue though is

people now fake their signal Taski because they only have let's say

Microsoft Word open for the most part they're only working on that one hard

thing but they're doing these quick checks

every 10 or 15 minutes right so if I check my phone yeah while I'm writing my

manuscript I am really losing ground in that endeavor of deep work after you put

the phone away you continue to lose ground so long well at least 10 to 15

minutes Wow yeah and most I would say most knowledge workers go less than to

the 15 minutes in between quick checks and so they think they're single tasking

because literally speaking they're not doing these things at the same time

except for in those quick moments that they're checking but the attention

residue cost which is the term that comes out of the psychology literature

the attention residue when you come back to the primary task last for a while it

reduces your cognitive output and so that's why deep workers are so adamant

that there can't be a single glance and if you glance the whole session no

longer counts as deep or what yeah the whole thing the whole thing not even

like that first half-hour where you blew it know if you've blast the last

half-hour does it count okay so let's use me as an example why not I wake up

very early so I have to check my email because I'm in news right so I have to

make sure nobody needs me to come on set or do anything I do that very quickly

and then should I put an auto-reply on my email at that point and basically say

I will not be checking email for the next two hours or something or develop a

ritual that the people who need to reach you know I mean something's very calm is

you have some sort of emergency procedure so here's my vote here's my

phone number the people you work with know if there's something breaking you

could call this phone or said to Texas right otherwise this is my writing time

and then I'll be back on it and whatever write expectations are set people adjust

pretty clearly it turns out of the workplace that predictability is more

important than accessibility and we often get that wrong what people need to

know is I know how a twit I could reach you and how that system works is more

important than actually having 24 access to you interesting

and if there's some emergency someone has your number they'll call you yeah

maybe you put a little bit of friction in you're surprised by how rarely that

actually happens there are some people who have said to me but my boss really

expects me to check in during vacation how do I get out of that trap right but

I mean a lot of that is offered the predictability versus accessibility

dynamic if it's unclear when I can reach you it would I

can't that I just need to be able to reach you right because I can't deal

with this idea that I might need you and I have no idea how to get in touch with

you and so let's just default to answer my emails yeah but if it's clear okay

here's how it works I definitely reachable there's certain periods what

I'm not want to do this type of work what about vacation this is my point of

contact these are the rules of engagement for getting back in touch

with me that's hype of clarity almost always satisfies do you think that I'm

the autoresponder actually works or doesn't work I think it could be useful

because it does give information about accessibility I think in general what I

call communication rules are useful which is having clarity so for example I

don't have an autoresponder as an author but I have a pretty clear set of

communication rules on my website here's four different addresses they each have

different purposes so use this address for this that address for this here are

the expectations about whether or not you should expect to hear for me or

whether or not I'll read it and so it's clarity mm-hmm and you would worry and a

lot of writers for example it might worry well that's going to upset my

readers but they don't see if that upset actually what's more upsetting the

readers is if you don't have that clarity see I don't know I see at email

address and so I respond I had an expectation an implicit expectation that

you were going to respond that you did it if you instead say here's my address

I love to get XYZ but I probably won't respond people are ok I got it I didn't

expect a response and so I'm not unhappy and then when you do respond when you

see a good lead or something people are way more happy than they want to get for

grant that is great so this work deep work was really popular and what year

was that published 2016 16 and here you are already with another new book at and

so basically you've lapped me six times isn't this your six books or smoke yeah

I just had my first book out today on the day of this interview and you now

have lapped me six times and you are a lot younger than I am so what do I have

to show for myself not a lot I guess I see what you start keep working though

back there next year all right there you go talk about what led you to digital

minimalism choosing a focused life so there's your favorite word focus in a

noisy world the readers of deep work were actually a big part of the initial

push into this topic so I was out there on the road

was talking about it this is a book about the workplace deep work was about

to workplace and readers would come up to me they'd say okay maybe I buy this

premise about what's going on in the workplace but the real issue I need the

one that's literally keeping me up at night is the impact of new technologies

of my personal life mm-hmm and there's something really interesting going out

there but also really different than what's happening in the workplace the

workplace we're talking about expectations with bosses we're talking

about email we're talking about slack what what's happening to people's

personal lives was actually much different and I had been noticing

because I've written about these topics for a while but I'd been notice heat

around that type 2016 early 2017 that there had been a shift in the way that

people seem to be talking about this mmm this shift from the self deprecation

like about my photo all the time isn't it crazy into actual unease where people

were starting to get fed up people were actually looking for changes they this

is not healthy this is not sustainable what's happened in my personal life this

message was so strong I was receiving it so strongly I felt like I had no option

but to actually leave the world the business and dive into this particular

topic what's happening in our personal lives with technology and you were able

to go out to your fan base and say who wants to help me with this project

basically yeah talk about that experiment and what it yielded well so

what are the things that became clear when I was working on the book is that

if you're gonna transition your digital personal life to something more

sustainable small tips small changes this wasn't going to get it done

something more wholesale had to happen I worked out a process a 30-day process

that I thought could affect this rapid transformation but I wanted to kick the

tires on it so I put out a note to my readers just on my email list saying hey

is anyone willing to come along with me and do a 30-day experiment you're gonna

have to step away from all the technology of personal life it's not

going to be easy and then send me reports about it I thought that maybe 20

or so people would agree and it's a big ask and then over 1,600 people is it

upside you know that is like that is a cry for help right there isn't it like

not only do I want to do this but I really need you to help me yeah and it's

interesting that you said it around your personal life cuz you make a distinction

that part of this look there you have the deep work and some of the rules and

the consistency around work life which I get everybody has different

expectations if you work at some big law firm yeah and the client wants you tough

luck don't be a lawyer in in this day and age if you don't want to be notified

at late in the day right yeah but for your personal life that's where you were

seeing having these feelings that came out that were I think that people

understood like I'm sort of not like maybe I don't I'm not addicted maybe I

am addicted but I have a tendency and urge something is drawing me back to

this device and and I can't escape it can you just talk a little bit about the

two issues especially around social media that draw you in

yeah well it's substance two companies went too far and that's part of what was

creating this trend where people were going from self deprecation to ease is

they got so good at getting you to look back at the phone because again that's

directly the activity that generates revenue for the company you going back

to the phone using it giving data and allowing your data to be used at Target

advertisement at you that's the business model they got real serious about this

business model around the time they started to think how are we going to

make this IPO success so Facebook in particular innovated a lot of what's

bringing us to the phone with the IPO was coming up they were thinking we have

to get the revenue up they get revenue up we have to get user engagement

minutes up they get user engagement minutes up we have to completely

re-engineer the experience of social media and we have to take it away from

what is used to be which is primarily you have a profile other people maintain

a profile you check in on your friends profiles they subtype check-in on years

and they reengineering it to this experience where you're getting the

steady stream of rewards coming at you through the app like likes we think like

is fundamental to social media it's not that's a feature that's much more

serving the interest of the companies that it is the users photo auto tagging

the the quick comets that you could leave the hearts on Instagram this

changed the experience of social media in the one where you have cost it

rewards social approval indicators about you commuted which really led to this

new relationship people had with their phones which is this constant companion

I'm always clicking which is different than it was before I love the you said

that the tech companies encourage behavioral addiction intermittent

positive reinforcement that's the hearts that's the likes which you think should

just be banned like everyone should stop doing that immediately

it's not a feature that was added because it made the user experience

better those features they were added because it quadrupled user engagement

minutes that's incredible and the drive for social approval because we are

social animals right and we do want that where is it that you see in the the the

iteration of where we are today in social media where you start to see the

approval part of that well so the big shift was instead of the static

experience where maybe I read what's going on in your life or maybe someone

reads about what's going on in my life they had to figure out how we give

indications that people are paying attention to you and so if I see theirs

likes that literally means someone liked something I was doing so if I tell you

like here's an envelope and in this envelope is something that someone was

thinking about you human nature makes it almost impossible

enough to open that envelope or as I say hey if this envelope there's something

interesting or funny oh that's nice maybe I'll get to that but if I tell you

no no someone said something about you I wrote it down it's it that envelope

you're gonna have to open it and so the social media platforms figured out

pretty quickly we have to find these indicators of social approval we have to

make the stream of social approval indicators as rich as possible because

that's human psychology 101 it might be nice to see what my friend is up to but

I have to see what people are thinking about me oh my god that is what got me

off of social media right there by the way the count's know what people are

like or dislike because so in my case you know on Twitter or not so much on

Facebook but more like on Twitter which is a cesspool I had to be on for work

like you're in journalism which i think is baloney I think this is all set

baloney to the nth degree like I know tons of journals you're like oh no you

have to be on Twitter like yeah if you're a producer and you're looking for

people to be in stories yes but for someone like me I don't have to be there

and I was really not into the nastiness I wasn't really not into I really didn't

like the anti-semitism oddly enough it wasn't great I don't have a thick enough

skin I guess but I really said I need to stop this so mark the executive producer

extraordinaire kind of runs my social accounts and he'll tell me if something

I need to respond to or he'll forward something to me that is important yes

and he'll to me you know this person's looking for

you they want a speaking engagement or I think your uncle's looking for you on

Facebook you know I I am so much happier with Mark being my filter because it

just hurt my feelings so much yeah which by the way is the way I think news

organization should run is there should be people who engage or monitor what's

going on social media on behalf of the journalists as opposed to this model

that the journalists themselves should be constantly engaged in the social

media that also distracts you and fragments your attention it makes it

very difficult to write the scripts or think through the story and so I'm with

you all right so now I want to talk about the principles of digital

minimalism starting with one of my favorite things which is you quantify it

and you say clutter is costly yeah and explain that right well I mean if we

take a step back what is minimalism asking you to do what it's asking you to

do essentially is wipe the slate clean of all of this haphazard junk that

you've added into your personal digital life for arbitrary reasons ypically get

rid of it all and they carefully rebuild it from scratch except for when you

rebuild it from scratch you just put in the big ROI the big wins big ROI options

right okay selective intentional use of technology

right now you're choosing very specifically this is going to help

something I really value this is going to help something I really value this

doesn't so I'm going to ignore it right that's classic minimalism now the

question is why does that work because it does mean that you have to miss out

on things that could bring you some small value or convenience very focus

you know just the big wigs you're ignoring the small winds so why do you

end up net-net better off well one of the reasons is this first principle is

that the clutter itself has a big negative cost and so we're used to this

in the physical clutter space that if I'm a hoarder that's oh my house is

overflowing with all this junk it's true that if you point to any one thing in my

house I could give you some reason why I might need that newspaper from 1985

right whatever that was a good year I might want to remember it but obviously

the overall negative cost of having my house be so over cluttered far outweighs

even the sum of all those small pieces of value well it's the same thing in

your digital life you have all these things on your phone they're all

collaborate for your attention you have some explanations for each here's the

reason why I downloaded that or here's what I could do with this but the

overall negative cost of having your tit should

constantly be pulled out constantly being manipulated could far outweigh the

sum of all those little benefits they bring you so the first thing I did after

I read the book was I deleted all social media from my phone and I'm like okay

not missing it at all okay and the other thing that happened it was weird I think

this was before I read your book but I was sitting in a bar in New York totally

enjoying a beautiful bourbon and I'm looking at my phone and I thought to

myself you know 15 years ago I'd be sitting at this bar and talking to the

person next to me yeah right and I put my phone away and I turned the guy next

to me and I'm like so where are you from and it was so much more of an

interesting experience and I'm look I'm an extrovert anyway so I like talking to

people I like face to face conversation it was so much a richer experience and I

know that sometimes we are when you see everyone else on their phones you want

to go on your phone but it was so much better to talk yeah well I mean that's

what are the specific examples I give in the book is the way tea did the

restaurant or the bar for someone you're gonna meet and just be there and how

interesting that actually is and I've had multiple people actually come up and

say the same thing that you're saying even last night I was talking to someone

a reader who was telling me that exact story how much she now enjoys that

period at the restaurant before her friends arrive it's actually really

interesting I mean you know we drown a bar you could talk to the bartender

there's eight recede people they were just watching what's going on it's like

a drama unfolding I mean you're just a load with your thoughts but also

encountering the world that's what our braid sort of expects to do our braid is

not evolve or the mid yeah text on a glowing screed that's that's this

rapidly that's also like emotionally engaging and about you that's

short-circuiting the brain and what about if you are if you find yourself

really it's like incapable you know I have a lot of friends who are corporate

people and they say like well look it's the expectation is that I have to check

my phone all the time and then once I check for work I'm now then dragged into

this other world how how can we help those folks yeah you have to try to

break those bridges where you can't I mean one of the things that's very

common about almost 80 digital minimalist tech setup is that their

phones are incredibly simplistic they have very few things on their phone

they would never for example even if they had a need for social media some

specific thing for work or this or that they would never have it on their phone

because they don't want that portal that always odd cost a companion model

digital minimalist are very old-school in the ways that if they need to use

Instagram or something like this it's on their desktop at home and they do it

just occasionally you know so they dub down their phones a lot so that you

broke of these bridges so I have to go out there the check if I have an email

for my law firm cannot easily then change into and so as long as I'm here I

better see what the latest baseball trade rumors are and okay now I really

this guy really has it wrong so I have to really let him know yeah it's

completely undervalued Bryce Harper then you go off it now you're down that

rabbit rabbit ocean you gotta fill in the rabbit holes basically and the

foetus where most of them live so once you realize that you have the clutter is

costly you say that optimization is important that is principle number two

of digital minimalism can you explain that right so what middle lists do is

after they make these intentional selections this is the tech I'm going to

use my personal life here's the big win I want to get out of it they don't stop

at the binary question of what they also ask how and win and this is where they

really start to get the big wid so they want to say well how am I going to use

this technology and what am I going to use this technology and so this is where

you get these setups like I was just saying where what's not on their phone

maybe it's just on their desktop and maybe they very severely curate their

experience and they have schedules around it and so an example I give in

the book is that I work with a lot of visual artists who told me okay it's to

grab passes this test of this is important for something I really value

because if you're a visual artist you need to have a constant stream of

creative input that's the grist right into the mill of creative output and

Instagram is a great place for that because a lot of artists post images of

their work and so the minimalist to go through this process who are artists to

say okay so I do need Instagram where they do the how in the wind question

they completely re-engineer their experience with Instagram and so for

example they'll often curate who they follow down to maybe let's say 10

artists they'll take it off the phone they'll put it on the desktop they'll

have a schedule which is like this is what I do Sunday more need I spend 20

minutes to see what's been posted by these artists over the past week they're

getting 99% of the deep you out of the service and out there

avoided 99% of the cost so that's the optimization piece of being a minimalist

it really does help push you in the big win category what drew you to the Amish

I found that to be rather curious and really illuminating well the Amish

highlight the third I would say principle about digital middle is why it

works which is this notion that intentionality itself can be so valuable

that it swaps out the inconveniences of being selective and so the Amish take

this idea and they push it to a far extreme so they have this very clear

intention we misunderstand the Amish often we think fallaciously that they

froze their technology at some point the 18th century right it said okay it's

never going to be better we're not gonna do anything new it's you know 785 just

gonna say you know it's like 1801 done yeah like whatever they really like that

year like I can't imagine we're gonna get any better I just added all the case

I mean I learned a lot about the Amish through Kevin Kelly who spent a lot of

time with the Lake historama switch he was younger he writes about how you show

up at a Thomas village and that idea gets blown out of the water right away

he talks about showing up and an Amish boy goes by on rollerblades and there's

solar panels and generators and the disposable diapers of the kids so what's

really going on with the Amish it's not anti-technology they have this clear

intention which is for them community straight to community like that's the

whole ballgame and so every new technology that comes along they

evaluate it is it going to make our community stronger or is it going to

make it weaker and they'll test it they'll say okay here's a smart phone

will use it cell phones let's try it let's have someone try it out cars let's

buy a car let's see what happens where they watch what happens and if it

strengthens the community they say great if a week is if they say no go right and

so this is why you could have a diesel generator or disposable diapers it does

it week at the community but if you have electricity connected to the grid well

now we're kind of too connected to the outside world or in a car is really a

problem because when they tried cars in the early 20th century people left they

go do other things and they weren't around Disney with neighbors they said

okay no cars now I'm not advocating that we should follow the same value system

of the Amish but the fact that the old Amish community still exists even though

they're surround the hi Western East Coast civilizations like

they don't know what's going on emphasizes this broader point which is

there could be so much a value would be intentional that it swaps out the

inconveniences because they have ed commedia says pushed to an extreme and

yet this order still survives in large part because there's such value out of

it attentional so what abut smaller scale

that's why digital minimalist could end up better off is yeah it's it convenient

sometimes not to have all these apps but the value you get out of beads so

intentional about your technology can be so satisfied that it swaps out all those

minor inconveniences and the thing that I thought was really cool is as you talk

about going on your 30-day digital purge is that you know obviously just don't

you're saying like don't go cold turkey and then bring it all back it's really

about thinking what have I missed and what am I going to replace this with

I have always been a physical book book person and even I mean I tried a Kindle

for five seconds and and even an iPad but I always like holding a physical

book and I think the reason I really like it is I feel like I am immersed in

it and that when there's technology that's underlying it then I can be

distracted quite easily what is it that people are bringing back into their

lives that they hadn't thought about in a while that will help them bridge the

gap between what they had and what they will have well at a logue leisure is a

big part of what people rediscover would they do this 30-day decluttering and by

the way I used to turbulent very specifically instead of detox because to

me it says mystery the way that the digital community has appropriated this

term detox it's a real perversion of the actual media of this term right it comes

out of the substance abuse community where a detox was you you break the sort

of addictive compulsion to use something as the first step towards building a new

life that doesn't have this in it anymore and yet in the digital community

we have this weird notion of a detox we're like okay here's the idea we take

a break they go back to what we were doing before which baffles people who

are used to this term from before and so I used to turbulent because it's not

about taking a break it's about completely changing so during this

30-day process where you're away from basically all of these technologies

before you rebuild your life analogue leisure is one of the big

things that people report back to be is that they rediscovered things as simple

as going to the library and getting a stack around the books like okay I now

get to go home and read these you know that and errata but I might like

something I might not others and it just kind of seems interesting that I have a

weekend afternoon here that's something we were all used to but we've lost

getting back into hobbies is a big thing for people and physical hobbies there

was there's something really interesting about that to me that there was

something about whether it's a gardening project or some sort of home-improvement

project that that was very satisfying well this is something I really

discovered working on this book is that there is a difference between even a

skilled digital activity at a skilled physical activity and a lot of it is the

way that our brains have evolved because we're a tool usage species is that what

our brain is set up to do it craves is manipulated the physical world at senior

attention manifested concretely that's what you use your hands and you you hit

the stowed right and you build the arrowhead and you could see that you've

built something new you had to detach it and you changed the physical world we

really need that and it's held recently we always had that because almost any

activity you did was going to be something in the physical world you're

making something you're building something you were repairing something

and so people find great pleasure when they get back to that they had forgotten

how much joy they used to got out of that and they were unaware of the degree

to which they had pushed almost any physical interaction with the world out

of their lives and replaced it with just an interaction with a digital stream

when you think about the the minimalism you also include you not only YouTube

but streaming media and I found that interesting cuz I was like hmm what why

is that because is that just because of the binging yeah actually my readers are

the ones who pushed that odd to me so what I did this original experiment I

had a list okay here's what I mean by technologies in your personal life and I

didn't have streaming media on it because I know the me it was kind of

confusing like is it TV or not TV I mean we have it come through our TV and it's

sort of maybe it's that the same as TV it's kind of the same thing and and left

three young kids we don't watch a lot of TV I mean we don't have a lot of free

time so did it really occur to me but the two push backs I got was you need to

add streaming media to it and it was because of the binge eat people were

using this as a way to not have to actually engage with the world or the

selves with their own thoughts and the video games my radar at all but a lot of

young Ned wrote it it said that has to be on this list so those are the two

things that I learned are having a big effect in people's lives I don't even

really realize about if you're not a bender should you still strip that away

yeah you don't have to be my original rules it's like if you're someone like

me like my wife and I might watch 30 minutes of TV at night or something like

that if we have time I didn't see that as being particularly troublesome but

people who were younger than me who had more down time let's say that we're

feeling it more streaming media they wanted the bad they pulled off though I

got a clever hack that I would say four or five different readers came up with

the same thing which is they had a rule about streaming media during this period

what is it they couldn't watch it but the rule was they could only watch it if

they're with someone else yeah I noticed that that there was like if I'm by

myself I'm sort of fall prey to that with

someone else and it's just a social I'm with someone else for watching to show

it social so I think that was a good compromise for a lot of people that's

excellent um what about the group of these young of these younger people who

are prone to having more anxiety and that the suicide rate is up and I'd

heard that but when I don't know why it just struck me as I read it in the way

you put it in context to me so awful and depressing and what can we do to

actually snap out of that horrible downward spiral well the good news is

there is a lot of pushback happening let me essentially what has happened with

that young generation Generation Z is that the data is starting to get so

stark that it's now crossing into public health crisis territory and now the

signal is beginning strongest and literatures become more robust is that

we are seeing a sharp rise and anxiety and excited related disorders as well as

the corresponding hospitalizations for self-harm and suicide attempts which is

what tells us this is not a self-report in effect a bug that generation and it's

a hockey stick graph if you're looking at your board and incidents of these

exciting exciting really disorders the corresponding hop to hospitalizations

it's like right at this point that it became standard for someone who was

young to have a smartphone it really rises

really really fast and I mean think about that like if you were 15 16 17

years old where you do have a natural anxiety about social intercourse you

have a real fear of missing out that it's like it preys on this almost

teenagehood in such a major way yeah if you're feeling like that and or you feel

like you're a parent and you're watching it what steps do you think that they

should be taking well so what I've here it is that there's there's a growing

unease above the young people themselves so they recognize this they recognize

this is a problem and they don't like it and what you really need in this

situation is you don't need a wholesale culture change of thus it's that okay

everyone has to stop using these things what I'm hearing and what I've heard

other people who really working on this issue closer than me Sade is we need

positive deviants which means if we can get two or three families it'll give it

school that don't let their kids have smartphones that will break the dam and

give the cover needed for lots more people not to do it and so I think the

schools need to get involved I think it is a public health issue but one of the

reasons I bring it up in the book is that it's also a canary in the coal mine

for those of us who are older right because this is a controlled experiment

you take the independent variable which is how much time do you spend looking at

a screed as opposed to interacting with the real world and you push it to an

extreme with that generation right because they push it to an extreme that

you and I would never get to where they essentially do all of their socializing

in their room all these green I know it's ridiculous like you see them at a

party like someone said to me oh it's like my kids bar mitzvah everybody was

on their phone not actually doing the party this was my teenage years was the

the the social navigation of are we cool enough to go to this party of trying to

read the room which is good trading but it's a great experiment like let's push

this independent variable to an extreme and see what happens and there were cede

extreme negative results so that's a that's a hit for the rest of us there

maybe not as isolated as a gin Z teenager but it might explain this sort

of background hub of anxiety that so many people feel is that we're just

getting a watered-down effect of this thing that we're seeing when we look at

the group that's pushing it to an extreme the key issue you write is that

using social media tends to take people away from the real world socialising

that's massively more valuable so this is the bar situation yeah what is it

that face-to-face communication delivers well our brain is primarily a social

processing computer and there's a ton of neuronal hardware that is optimized for

actually reading the Ritz Tremec use that you see if you're actually in a

physical analog conversation so it's looking at small changes in facial

structure it's looking at body language there's an effect called limbic

consonants where I'm actually going to start to try to match some of the

rhythms and intonation of your voice so that there's more of a connection there

these are huge parts of the brain that are working on how do I sit here with

another person and navigate this back and forth interaction I'm doing

something called mentalizing which means okay now I'm also simulating your braids

in my brain so that I can essentially run experiments on my braids as to how

will you react if I say this or that right that's also going on when you're

interacting with someone face to face so we have all of this hardware that's

optimized over evolution to handle something that's incredibly complicated

which is human interaction almost none of that hardware gets used when the

interaction is digital and on a screen if it's just text-based or even worse

just a icon like a like button you see an account go out from 6 or 7 or I say

happy birthday mm-hmm on your Facebook wall

none of that uses any of that machinery and so you might be telling yourself oh

I'm so social I said happy birthday to 23 people this week but as far as your

brain is concerned you haven't talked to anyone how does that play out in a

workplace where there are so many remote employees I mean you remember when

Marissa Mayer got like her ass kicked because she's like no more working

remote maybe she was on to something where people did need to be in the same

physical space not every single day but more often than not to be more

collaborative to be more collaborative but also to avoid real large problems

that were coming out of misunderstandings because when you're

just it'll say email or slack based communication you're not getting any of

these social cues voice intonation and body language and so we have a really

hard time try to extrapolate that from text and so what happens is when you're

almost all doing text based communication is there's all these

Poisson their standings mmm like well Jill I think is mad at me or you know

right because you don't know you're you don't know how to put toad it's a just

text it so people get resentments people get really upset there's sort of false

the visions that are happy digs get heated and this is all because we're not

made we're social creatures that don't know how to socialize through ASCII

characters we have to have the analog component and so there is a lot of

pushback on remote work II and I think this is part of it

sherry Turkle the MIT professor you mentioned the book she's reported that

even and odd remote workplaces this is a problem with young employees because

they're uncomfortable cuz it's very hard right it's very hard to do interaction

which is why we're supposed to spend our whole adolescence practicing it we're

supposed to be you know hate in the party and try to read the room but

having these conversations if you don't practice you're not very good at because

it's incredibly hard what we do what seems easy to us there's actually really

really hard and so if you spit your whole teenage years avoiding that

communicating through ASCII instead of analog even if you're in the office

they're very uncomfortable talking to their boss face to face I'm hoping that

your book and more of the research that comes out is really going to prompt

people to have these conversations although there was only one thing that I

really had I had a pain in my belly when you said it which is you know I walk my

dogs a ton so I'm out and I walk and it's great but I think you don't approve

of the fact that I listen to podcasts while I do that well about a thigh

podcast so you could f initely left a podcast but the key is to have sometimes

when you're not I know that's what I'm gonna do solitude yes hello with your

own thoughts you don't have to always be alone with your own thoughts Kristen

you're lonely bit Franklin wrote about this at his and went back and found it

in his journals right and he talked about solitude is crucial but if you do

too much of it you're gonna be very unhappy you can't do no solitude if

you're never a load with your own thoughts it's problematic on the other

hand if you're always a load with your own thoughts like it's solitary

confinement that's not so great either so so I give you dispensation I can cut

down a little bit I think that's okay okay Cal Newport before you leave when

we started I said your best financial or career decision you said was actually

going to grad school going into academia what was your worst uh probably the

amount of student loads I took out as an undergraduate mmm I don't really think

much about it no why would you yeah yeah unfortunately this worked out okay

there's more for anything I was able that I was able to pay those back but

but yeah I mean it was so casual everybody a stillness

now but I was so casual back that I know you're so worried about it right and and

anyone could get it and any kid could get it now any parent can get it you

know the fastest-growing segment of people who borrow for education are

those over the age of 60 interested does that blow your mind or

what I mean the numbers aren't as big it's just that the pace is insane

there's so much money to be made there if you're the yeah and also like there's

so much so many like broken hearts and terrible stories that people over 64

like yeah I wish I could retire man sorry yeah all right Khalid I want to

bring you down yeah no upset No I love your books I

think that you are fantastic it's a breath of fresh air and for for those of

us who are feeling the pain of that pull it is a perfect antidote so thank you so

much for coming on the program well thank you I did it thank you so much to

Cal Newport I hope this really is helpful for you it was incredibly

helpful for me remember we dropped new episodes of Jill

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- Hello I'm Sultana Ali coming to you from the LG

Digital Studio at the Georgetown University

School of Continuing Studies.

In focus today, reputation management in a digital world.

I'm joined by Anthony Shop, co-founder

and chief strategy officer for Social Driver

and Chairman of the National Digital Roundtable.

Welcome Anthony, how are you?

- Great, thanks for having me.

- Wonderful.

So let's talk a little bit about social media.

When we say social media, we're not just talking about

Twitter and Facebook anymore right?

- Right, social media has really pervaded all

of marketing and communications.

It's the way that we interact with one another.

So of course, Facebook and Twitter are often mentioned

but Instagram is now the fastest growing channel

that so many folks use, of course owned by Facebook

and we saw a recent announcement today that

the messenger apps, that Facebook messenger,

WhatsApp and Instagram messenger are all going to merge

into one platform so the landscape is continuing

to evolve and we need to include messenger

and those other apps that are private ecosystems

not just public ecosystems like Twitter.

- So thinking about all of these changes that are happening

as this world evolves, what challenges does living

in this digital age pose for an organization

that's trying to manage its digital reputation?

- Yeah well first thing, I always want to say is that

there are a lot of challenges, we see them in the news

every day, but there are also a lot of amazing

opportunities to reach people and connect with one another

that we never had before,

things that used to be unimaginable.

So there's that positive but we also have to recognize

the challenges that organizations face.

It's not just what they say about themselves that matters

anymore or what a newspaper writes about them

but what their customers and other stakeholders

say about them as well.

And so it means we can't just talk but we have to listen,

we have to ask what are other people saying about us,

how are they saying it,

how can we measure that so we know

what to do with that information

and that really changes the game for marketers

because organizations are used to telling their own story,

they're not always used to asking how do I become

part of other people's stories

and that's really what we have to do today.

We have to ask how do I get in that selfie with my customer

cause that's how I'm gonna reach their friends,

their family and other people.

I can't just interrupt them anymore.

So totally different for marketers.

- Yeah completely different.

So there's challenges which you kind of referred to

but there's also great opportunities.

Is there an example that stood out to you

in your work at Social Driver?

- Well there's so many.

I mean Social Driver is a digital agency that helps

companies connect with people today.

And we work with large companies,

we work on campaigns, we work with causes

and one of my favorites is the GED Grad Day,

which was a new initiative that we helped the GED launch.

They're traditional advertising, you know bus ads,

radios ads, was not a compelling way to connect

with their audience.

It didn't seem authentic.

And we said why don't we find real stories

and elevate those stories?

So from that idea GED Grad Day was born

and it resulted in thousands of people sharing their own

positive experiences about how the GED helped them

fulfill their dreams, go to college, get a great career,

and it was really inspiring because people

who maybe felt ashamed of the journey,

they said you know gosh I used to not want to talk

about this but now I realized it was really important

and I should tell everybody what I did and be proud of it

and that's exactly what we wanted

but it also was great marketing

because it reached other people to learn about

how this could be an opportunity.

So that's what I would call bottom-up marketing.

- Well that's great.

Authenticity is really important as part of all of this

and with this new generation that's coming,

millennials and the generation behind them,

they're expecting more of brands and organizations

in terms of how they communicate with them

and what they stand for so socially conscious marketing

is something that is on the minds of a lot of marketers

and PR professionals today.

Is that a trend that you see continuing?

- I think it's really continuing and I think young people,

millennials, gen Z are driving this

but I think we are all embodying that,

even older generations saying it's not just the product

but I want to know who am I supporting

by buying this product?

What do they stand for?

What are their values?

And what does it mean about me that I choose

to buy their product, use their product,

have their label on myself if I'm purchasing clothes

or something like that and so we're continuing to see that

and I think it's driven by social norms

but it's also just driven by, we have more information now.

You can go to a store and look at a label

and you can do a quick search on Twitter or Google

or YouTube and find out more about that company

which we couldn't do previously.

So we're asking those questions.

We care about it and I think we all realize

that there are opportunities with the decisions

we each make to make a difference in the world

and have an impact so this is gonna continue

to be a major shift that we see with brands

and how brands interact with their customers

and consumers and it means reputation management

is such an important focus right now

and we have to understand reputation management

in a digital age, not in yesterday's

view of what that meant.

So if you were to speak with leaders of organizations

today, what would you tell them is really important

to keep in mind about managing the reputation

in a digital world?

- Yeah I think the first thing is,

you do have to benchmark where you are.

Some organizations are in a very inactive or passive state

where they might not be really engaging around

their reputation or maybe if someone says something

about them they respond.

Others move into more of an active state

where they're talking about themselves,

but what we want to do is move into a proactive

or innovative state where we're not just talking

about ourselves but we're listening to the conversations

out there and participating, even if our company

or our brand isn't mentioned.

So that's the first thing, let's audit, see where we are,

and see what steps we can take so that we can move

forward as an organization and I think I have to back

to this idea that there's this bottom up approach

and we have to ask not just what story do I want to tell

but what stories are my customers telling?

They're writing their own real-time autobiographies

online, on Instagram, and on Snapchat.

What can we do to become part of that?

We just worked on a cool project with Petco

and we created a Snapchat lens for their sponsorship

of ZooLights so that when a customer was up at

ZooLights participating, they could use this

panda mask lens and it moved with their face.

It was really interactive so that they could share

that they were there and participating

and that's an example of becoming part of their story.

Thousands of people used that lens and that meant

Petco was part of thousands of people's stories

that they were sharing with their friends.

It's very different from interrupting

those people with an ad.

It's not that we don't ever want to do that

but there's a new tactic that we need to take advantage of

so that we're not just telling our story

but we're becoming part of other people's stories too.

I think that's the number one thing leaders need

to recognize and they need to ask how are we doing that

and are we doing it at all?

And many companies have huge opportunities if they

just embraced the digital mindset of how to do that better.

- I think that's a great point to end our discussion on.

Thank you so much for joining us today Anthony.

- My pleasure, thank you.

- And thank you for listening

and being out there and watching.

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Explore digital literacy across the curriculum with seven different sessions.

You'll even learn to make a video like this one.

We will have a viewing room in the TLC, or you can attend online by registering through @ONE.

Hope you can join us.

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