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Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

Dr. William Brady on Social Media, Moral Outrage and Polarization

Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.624.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This is the second episode in our series on the possibilities and costs of living beyond human scale. In this episode, Brené and William discuss group behavior on social media and how we show up with each other online versus offline. We’ll also learn about the specific types of content that fuel algorithms to amplify moral outrage and how they tie to our search for belonging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everyone I'm Brinay Brown and this is unlocking us.

0:02.8

So we have a very interesting conversation today.

0:13.6

I, everybody in the series, I could talk to them for hours and hours,

0:18.0

but I keep getting like the fish eye from folks here,

0:20.5

like, wrap it up, we're hitting an hour we're doing a series and this is a

0:24.9

little bit different we're doing a series that's going to cross over between

0:28.4

unlocking us and dare to lead and we're going to talk about the challenges, the possibilities, the costs of living beyond human scale.

0:38.9

And when I say living beyond human scale, I mean we are really socially, biologically,

0:48.7

cognitively, spiritually wired to be in connection, kind of IRL in real life with each other with our

0:55.3

families with our friends with community and we are living in this environment

1:00.3

of social media,

1:03.0

artificial intelligence, machine learning.

1:06.2

We have access 24-hour news and 50 different channels,

1:12.0

all with different ethos and ethics and financial models.

1:18.0

Everybody wants our time and everyone's saying what they think we want to hear and it just seems beyond human scale right now and so

1:25.2

I'm talking to folks who can help us make sense of it and help us kind of I don't know

1:31.4

get underneath the machine to figure out who we are and what we're seeing and why it can feel so overwhelming.

1:39.0

And if we can pull back, what are some of the great possibilities. Today specifically I'm talking to

1:45.6

Dr William Brady.

1:49.4

Support for this show comes from Atlassian. Productivity. It's a word we tend to obsess over.

1:58.0

But how do we even measure productivity when our team might be distributed across the globe.

2:03.0

With 11,000 plus employees around the world,

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