• “Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self” — In 2015, Note To Self host Manoush Zomorodi issued a challenge to her listeners. She wanted to help them develop a more balanced relationship with their digital devices. She called the project Bored and Brilliant. It was so successful that she turned it into a book, which is out now. One tip I learned — keep my smartphone in my bag, not on my body, when I’m not using it.
• Dear Prudence — The history of the newspaper agony aunt is long and storied. But now in a digital age, advice columns have moved from print to podcast. Slate’s iteration is Dear Prudence, which is now dutifully embodied by New York Times bestselling author Mallory Ortberg. Her advice is pretty solid and she often has help answering thorny questions from friends like writers Roxane Gay, Lindy West and Bim Adewunmi.
• Twenty Thousand Hertz — Dallas Taylor makes a podcast all about sound. Particularly, the world’s most recognizable sounds. So we asked him to join us on a listening adventure at one of Washington, D.C.’s most iconic soundscapes — Union Station. Specifically, we were interested in the Washington Metro. But while on the train with Taylor, we made a shocking discovery — the human voice on the trains has been replaced by a robot voice. And this matters. Because the way our environments sound matters.
• Very attractive listener recommendations: SickBoy and BirdNote

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