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Inside the Hive

Is Your Phone Trying to Kill You?

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

News

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Breaking news. Push notifications. Email alerts. We live in a world where technology has become inescapable—and where tech CEOs profit from our addictions. Ryan Holiday, author of a new book on “Stillness,” joins Nick to explain how to turn off your phone, tune out Trump, and drop off the grid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Season 2 of Julia, the Max Original Series about the Life and Times of Julia Child returns

0:09.5

Thursday, November 16th.

0:11.6

Stream on Max and listen to dishing on Julia, the official companion

0:15.6

podcast.

0:16.6

Welcome to Inside the Hive. I am your host Nick Billton and I'm about to give you some real anxiety.

0:26.2

Are you ready?

0:27.2

Are you ready for the sound?

0:28.2

Listen to this.

0:29.2

So you're probably freaking out as my phone is making all these noise and wondering if

0:38.0

it's your phone that's making all these noise and thinking to yourself, oh my God, it's a text

0:41.5

message, it's a DM, it's a it's a God knows what and that is

0:46.0

because we live in a world where our devices have complete and utter control over us.

0:51.9

They interrupt us at dinner with our family, with our friends everywhere,

0:56.8

with emails, with text messages, with d.m. It's just constant and we as people don't want it anymore. We're kind of fed up with it.

1:05.4

We're sick of all of these things that are just kind of knocking on our door and

1:09.0

annoying the hell out of us. So my guest today has gone through the same thing but has actually come out of the other side with a solution.

1:15.2

He is Ryan Holliday, he's the author of several books and I'm very excited to welcome him back to the show.

1:20.6

He came on about a year and a half ago when he had another book out about

1:24.2

the the media wars between Peter Teal and Gokker and his latest book is called

1:29.8

Stillness is the Key and it's about how to win in the battle against Tech and the importance

1:37.3

of stillness in our lives and leaving our devices behind and turning things off and you know essentially just how to win this war so I'm

1:44.8

very excited to welcome him to the show.

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