Digital Day of Rest

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 24, 2019

Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards and the author of 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week (Gallery Books, 2019), proposes a digital "sabbath" -- spending one day a week away from devices.

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