Attention Please

Note to Self | Sep 5, 2017

Today, the first book to be born out of a crowdsourced podcasting movement - our movement, dear listeners - is here.

In 2015, tens of thousands of you joined me in an experiment. Could we separate from our devices just a bit, and turn them from taskmaster to tool? Could we make space for boredom, and let the brilliance in? Together, we found the answer. YES.

Enter Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self. Today, we connect with Liam and Vanessa, who took part of the original challenge, to hear the surprising places the last two years have taken them.

Plus a new conversation with tech-star and NTS friend Tristan Harris, a designer once tasked with sucking your eyeballs to the screen. Now, he’s fighting the good fight to reclaim your brain.

COME SEE ME!

I’ll be signing books and engaging in some lively discussion around boredom at the Strand in Manhattan this Friday, Sept. 8. Fittingly, with my longtime friend and radio mentor Brooke Gladstone, host of On the Media.

And to kick off my virtual tour, because we can’t forget the Internet, I’ll be on Reddit earlier that day. Send me questions through /r/podcasts at noon. I’ll be @manoushz. I’m excited to see your usernames and actual faces.

GET BORED

To celebrate the book launch we made Bored and Brilliant phone backgrounds. For reminders to look up, space out, and wander toward brilliance. Download (and share!) now...