Ep 246 - How to Talk to Strangers (with Kio Stark)
Episode 246 of the Tech After Five podcast, hosted by Phil Yanov, titled "Ep 246 - How to Talk to Strangers (with Kio Stark)" was published on April 6, 2021 and runs 43 minutes.
April 6, 2021 ·43m · Tech After Five
Summary
My mother told me not to talk to strangers. It turns out that it's not great advice for an adult. More talking with people outside of our circles leads us to better places. Kio Stark is the author of When Strangers Meet. She challenged herself and she challenges us to expand our circles and defy that advice we got as kids. Kio Stark is the author of When Strangers Meet, the novel Follow Me Down and the independent learning handbook Don’t Go Back to School. She writes, consults, teaches, and speaks around the world about stranger interactions, independent learning, and how people relate to technology. In other lives, Kio has worked in journalism, interactive advertising, community research, and game design. She has taught about stranger interactions and intimacy and technology and how we mistake technology for people at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Practice your networking skills and expand your network with us at one of our Tech After Five events. Are you on the Tech After Five mailing list? http://eepurl.com/KLhj your hosts of the Tech After Five podcast: Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business. Phil Yanov is the Showrunner and Executive Producer of Tech After Five.
Episode Description
My mother told me not to talk to strangers. It turns out that it's not great advice for an adult. More talking with people outside of our circles leads us to better places. Kio Stark is the author of When Strangers Meet. She challenged herself and she challenges us to expand our circles and defy that advice we got as kids.
Kio Stark is the author of When Strangers Meet, the novel Follow Me Down and the independent learning handbook Don’t Go Back to School. She writes, consults, teaches, and speaks around the world about stranger interactions, independent learning, and how people relate to technology. In other lives, Kio has worked in journalism, interactive advertising, community research, and game design. She has taught about stranger interactions and intimacy and technology and how we mistake technology for people at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Practice your networking skills and expand your network with us at one of our Tech After Five events.
Are you on the Tech After Five mailing list? http://eepurl.com/KLhj
your hosts of the Tech After Five podcast:
Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.
Phil Yanov is the Showrunner and Executive Producer of Tech After Five.
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