digital health — Podcast Episodes

Do you use Slack at work? Is your email inbox overflowing? Has any of this tech made our work better?

Workplace tech has grown a lot… from memorandums to fax machines to email to Slack! So are we all more efficient? Or more overwhelmed?

Workers check their email every 6 minutes. Slack users check it every 5! How do we get anything done? Do we just send messages to show our boss that we’re working? Performative productivity is real!

Chris and Adam arguing about work life for the first time. Tech is collapsing our work and personal lives together. Maybe that’s a good thing?

Plus, find out what happened a week after IBM introduced email into the company.

Podcast Episode, Season 7, PostAdam GraberJune 13, 2022work, email, Slack, anxiety, stress, communications, digital health

S6E7 - For-Profit Prayer Apps: Good for the Soul?

How do you pray? In the morning? With friends from church? How about with your smartphone? Millions of people already are, and paying a subscription to do so. And Big Tech thinks you will too. Are Prayer Apps good for the soul? Adam and Chris dive into the spiritual, and financial, realities of Prayer Apps and this new pay-to-pray world.

S6E2 - Interview: “Wise Phone” Creator—Chris Kaspar

Meet a new smartphone that can’t install apps, doesn’t have Facebook, and that’s why people want it. Does it make life better?

Adam interviews Chris Kaspar, founder of Techless and maker of the Wisephone about digital addiction, parenting, smartphone self-control, and more. Then, in the post-interview discussion, Chris and Adam discuss whether they would get a Wisephone and suggest some ways the Techless might make the Wisephone better.