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Note to Self — 298 episodes
How to Create Good Digital Citizens
Why Everyone is Talking About Digital Minimalism
How The Best Teacher Teaches Creativity
Note to Self is Back and We Start with The Big One: Kids and Screens
Note to Self is Back!
Rice Bunny: The Me Too Movement Comes to China
Dear (Data) Diary
A Different Kind of Streaking
Your Metadata is Showing
Whose Bot Army Is Following Manoush?
The Fourth Amendment Needs Your Attention
Is the Opioid Epidemic a Tech Problem?
How To Have No Filter
No Filter: Jasmyn Lawson
No Filter: Barbara Kruger
No Filter: Christiane Amanpour
No Filter: Amy Sherald
No Filter: Trace Lysette
No Filter: Lele Pons
Why We Need No Filter
My Digital Revolution
Am I Normal?
What to Think About Before Posting Family Photos
Have Dating Apps Killed Romance?
Help Us Collect Political Ads on Facebook
Meet an Online Emotional Escort
How to Find the Right Amount of Screen Time
Dear Manoush: The Advice Episode
Dan Harris Knows All Your Excuses for Not Meditating
Search Inside Yourself For Peace and Joy
Look Into the Future with Black Mirror
Alexa, Is Amazon Taking Over The World?
"You Deserve to Die" and Other Fun Conversation Starters
Let’s Check The Tape
The Lawsuit that Could Shine a Light on Cambridge Analytica
Revisiting Cambridge Analytica’s Role in the Presidential Election
It’s Not Over Nyet
Spy Terms of the Internyet
Nyet Just a Conspiracy Theory?
Where Do I Go Now?
Play Video Games for Your Mental Health
Talking to Myself
I Didn’t See Your Text
Ghosting, Simmering and Icing with Esther Perel
Forty Years of Coding In a Man's World
Eavesdropping On Epiphany
Attention Please
Refresh Your Mind
Bonus: Behind the Scenes at TED
Save the Planet! Part 1: I'm Gonna Take My Clothes Off
Save the Planet! Part 2: Whale Poop
Save the Planet! Part 3: Super Powered Sweet Corn
Save the Planet! Part 4: Suck It
Save the Planet! Part 5: Do Over?
Escape From Yahoo!
Your Mailman Is a Drug Dealer. He Just Doesn’t Know It.
Should We Post Photos of Our Kids Online?
When Was the Last Time You Peed Without Your Phone?
We’ve Gained So Much With the iPhone. What Have We Lost?
We See Ourselves in Black Mirror
Father's Day Bonus: Dad As the Lead Parent
What Sen. Wyden Does When He’s Not Questioning Comey or Sessions
Preview: Sen. Ron Wyden of the Senate Intelligence Committee
Meet the Humans Who Protect Your Eyes
What We Learned from Grandpa’s FBI File
Ed Snowden Says a 'Very Very Dark Future' Is Not Inevitable
Wait, What IS Reality? We Investigate.
Taking the Lead Episode 1: The Pain Point
Taking the Lead Episode 2: The Paradox
Taking the Lead Episode 3: The Pressure
Taking the Lead Episode 4: The Partnership
Why Are So Many Bots Following Manoush?
Parents Just Don’t Understand, Tech Edition
AI Learns from Us. So It Learns Bias.
Revealing Selfies. Not Like That.
Spring Cleaning for the Mind
Cucked: Defining Manhood the Alt-Right Way
Deep-Dark-Data-Driven Politics
The Man Who Invented Facebook Ad Tracking Is Not Sorry
Government Secrets Worth Leaking... or Keeping?
Will You Do a Snapchat Streak With Me?
Zapping Your Brain To Bliss
Can Your Phone Make You Better In Bed?
Privacy, Data Survivalism and a New Tech Ethics
Privacy Paradox: Results Show
Day 5: Your Personal Terms of Service
Day 4: Fifteen Minutes of Anonymity
Day 3: Something To Hide
Day 2: The Search For Your Identity
Day 1: What Your Phone Knows
Introducing: The Privacy Paradox
Saving Big Data From Itself
The Bookie, The Phone Booth, and The FBI
The Four Tendencies: How to Feed Good Habits
New Year. Same Old You.
Go Ahead. Miss Out.
Messages From the Beyond
Meet the Textalyzer... and Our Next Big Project
Distracted Is the New Drunk
Tech Under Trump
Shaking Up Your Echo Chamber. For Democracy.
Your Facebook Friend Said Something Racist: Thanksgiving Edition
Drop Your Phone, Make Your Bed, Says Gretchen Rubin
A Post-Election Note to You
Do You Really Want to Live Forever?
Mindfulness on Demand
Come and Sit with Marina Abramović
Bonus: Marina Abramović’s Method Blew Our Minds
If My Body is a Text
When Silicon Valley Takes on Elementary School
Facing Our Weirdest Selves
Digging Into Facebook's File on You
Bonus: Chelsea Clinton Talks Global Equality and Breastfeeding
The Secret to Making Video Games Good for You
There Is No 'Off the Record'
Sext Education: Teens, Photos, and the Law
Blind Kids, Touchscreen Phones, and the End of Braille?
The Thing About Texts From Your Ex
Should We Post Pictures of Our Children Online?
The One Thing You Can Actually Do to Fight Surveillance
Is My Phone Listening in On Me?
Taking the Lead Bonus: Andrew Moravcsik
Taking the Lead Episode 4: The Partnership
Taking the Lead Episode 2: The Paradox
Taking the Lead Episode 1: The Pain Point
Introducing: Taking the Lead
Bored and Brilliant: BOOT CAMP 2016
A Beginner's Guide to International Tech Etiquette
What Happens When We Skimm the News
Infomagical: BOOTCAMP
When To Stop Looking for a Better Date or Restaurant
6 Algorithms That Can Improve Your Life
Sexiness, Social Media and Teenage Girls
The Realities of Virtual Reality
What Happens to the Videos No One Watches
Eye in the Sky
The Puppet Masters Behind Online Shopping
Two Dope Queens on Feminism
Creating a Super-Human You with Dave Asprey
Forget Edibles: Getting High on Wearables
Apple's Security Debate is Everyone's Problem (Including Yours)
Your Quantified Body, Your Quantified Self
Why You Feel More Productive But the Economy Isn’t
Wait, You're Into [Insert Kink] Too?!
Why You Should Put a Post-It Over Your Laptop Camera
Have You Tried to Hack Your Health? Tell Us What Happened.
What We Learned When 25,000 People Tried to Fight Information Overload
Infomagical Challenge 5: Magical Life
Infomagical Challenge 4: Magical Connection
Infomagical Challenge 3: Magical Brain
Infomagical Challenge 2: Magical Phone
Infomagical Challenge 1: Magical Day
The Case for Infomagical
When FOMO Meets JOMO
An Apology to Our Listeners. Because Two Dots.
A Neuroscientist’s Guide to Getting Organized (Plus: Survey!)
Listen to Your Voicemail
Why You Should Care About LEGO and Creativity
5 Links We Would GChat You If We Were Friends
Marina Abramović’s Method Blew Our Minds
On Wexting and Other Woes
So Your Facebook Friend Said Something Racist. Again.
Going Deep on Digital Photo Clutter
Quick Explainer: Encryption Apps and the Paris Attacks
When a School Has a Sexting Scandal
Is My Phone Eavesdropping On Me?
It's Time to Deal With Your Photo Clutter
How to Shake Up Your Echo Chamber
Can You Have a Whole Relationship Through Texts?
Sherry Turkle: 'Even a Silent Phone Disconnects Us'
WiFi, Cancer, and Paranoia
Why Google 'Thought' This Black Woman Was a Gorilla
The Ad Blocker's Dilemma: Sell Your Soul or Destroy the Internet
Why Texts From Your Ex Is a Thing
Why Online Shoppers See Different Prices for the Same Item
Back to School Guide: How to Think About Kids and Tech
Stop Going on Bad Dates. Here's How to Fix Your Online Profile.
LEGO Kits and Your Creative Soul
Should You Post Pictures of Your Kids Online?
This Is Your Brain on Online Shopping
What Is Our Attention Actually Worth?
Bored and Brilliant: BOOT CAMP
What Do Txts Do To Actual Writing?
Would You Go?
I'm Introverted. How Do I Find Quiet Space in the Digital Age?
What Divorce by Algorithm Means for Marriage
When Your Conspiracy Theory Is True
There's Just Something About Paper
Judging Your Originality in a Cut and Paste World
This Is How Much the Internet Knows About You
Welcome to Note to Self
How Eating Disorders Evolved Online: An Update
Yes, You’re Distracted. Is it ADHD?
'Am I Trans?': One Teen’s Quest and How Gaming Helped
What Google Is Doing to Solve Its Gender Problem
Apple Knows You're Sick of Your Phone
Here’s What Watson Actually Does (And: Cooked Avocado?)
Growing Up Digital: 3 Truths for the Adults
ClassDojo: Do I Want it in My Kid's Class?
Is Braille Obsolete?
A Parent's Guide to All That 'Ed Tech' In Your Kid's Classroom
Tweens and Tech Guide: Getting Them to Open Up
There is Actually One Thing You Can Do to Fight the Surveillance Machine
Ethical Questions for Your Inner Couch Potato
Bored and Brilliant: The Personal Stories
Bored and Brilliant: We Got Bored
Bored and Brilliant Challenge 6: Dream House
Bored and Brilliant Challenge 5: One Small Observation
Bored and Brilliant Challenge 4: Take a Fauxcation
Bored and Brilliant Challenge 3: Delete That App
Bored and Brilliant Challenge 2: Photo Free Day
Bored and Brilliant Challenge 1: In Your Pocket
What 95 Minutes of Phone Time a Day Does to Us
9 Things We Learned About Phones From a Teenager
The Case for Boredom
Seriously, Listen to Your Voicemail
Tales of Real Life Tech Addiction
Screens Really are a Nightmare for Sleep
Look How Cute this Military Cyber Warfare Training Ground Is
Your Facebook Friend Said Something Racist. Now What?
What to Do When Robots Replace People You Work With
Type "Hello" To Amy, Your Plucky Digital Personal Assistant
Varsity Video Gamers
Video Games Meet Middle Age Emotions
Pajama Volunteers: The Digital Front of Disaster Response
EXTRA: Bill Binney and Ladar Levison Talk Cryptography
The Other Ed Snowdens: Inside the Mind of Two Privacy Whistleblowers
Containing Ebola Like They Did in This Video Game
Space Tourism Gets Sweetly Personal for These Two Strong Lady Travelers
BONUS TRACK: How Twitter Has Changed Nonfiction
Screens and Kids: Do Techies Have Different Rules than the Rest of Us?
Killer Robots + Ancient Rules of War = Trouble
Backing Tracks: Why Live Music Won't Be Live For Long
The 'Bi-literate' Brain: The Key to Reading in a Sea of Screens
The View from Inside the Glass Cube
Ana and Mia: How Eating Disorders Evolved Online
How to Be Smarter than Facebook
Learning To Code and Losing My Mind (Reprise)
Me and My Girlfriend Texted Only in Emoji for a Month
The Way Colleges Teach Computer Science Hurts Women
Three Award-Winning Stories
Mining Your Voice for Hidden Feelings and Company Profits
Dissecting Voices to Find the Hidden Call For Help
Digital Mail vs U.S. Postal Service
Mindy Kaling, Girly Girls, and the Future of Tech
The Flip Side of The Right to Be Forgotten
The Bus of the Future Will Catch You
Your Posture May Change Your Math Skills
It's Time to Start Talking About Robot Morals
Hi, I’m David, and I’m a Digital Addict
The 'Home of the Future' Will Save the Planet... and Drive You Crazy
Sleep and Your Screens, Not Friends
How Businesses Are Rating YOU
Yelp Reviews: The New Frontier of Free Speech
Hiring by Video Game
Inside Google X, The New Bell Labs
China's One App to Rule them All
Parenting Strategies for the Digital Age
The Way We Teach Computing Hurts Women
A Labor Revolution or a Return to Serfdom: Could You Thrive in the Gig Economy?
The Hottest Thing From Google Is Over Before It Began
The Simple Steps Behind World Class Efficiency
Emoji Gone Wild: We Text Without Words for a Month
Holstee Manifesto: The History of the One Motivational Poster that Pervades Startup Culture
Machine Learning + Love
The World Would be a Better Place if We [DELETED]
Mindhacking: Finding Serenity in a Tech-Obsessed World
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, But Does Airbnb?
How to Be a Young Boss (Or Work for One)
Cicada 3301: The Great Internet Mystery Solved!
The Tipping Point: How Amazon Reached It and Why This Startup Hasn’t
Dude, Where's My Bitcoin? Tales of Real People Dealing With a Virtual Currency
Can You *Like* God?
How To Kick Digital Butt in a 21st-Century Workplace
I Love You Mother Earth, But I Love My iPhone More
Bringing the Internet to Public Housing, Your Neighbors and a Unicorn
These Games Could Be Good for Young Brains
A Civic Call for NYC Techies: Bring Digital Talent into Public School Classrooms
Programming Families: How Kids are Like Software, and What the Government Could Learn From It
Tiny Estonia Beats the U.S. on E-Voting
Safety Nets: Broadband & Wifi in a Post-Sandy World
Who Is Jeff Bezos? And What is Amazon?
Coffee and E-Cigarettes
Freelance Nation: “The Greatest Economic Transformation in Human History”?
When the FBI Knocks: A Techie’s Moment of Truth
How Twitter Created Connections But Drove the Founders Apart
Mutated Code and the Amish Algorithm
Obamacare and the Biometric Bracelet Experiment
NYC Tech: Who’s Your Daddy?
Phones + Mischief: From Muggers to Dennis Crowley
A Google Map of Our Brains: The Next Chapter in Neuroscience
Real Estate, Rackets, Risk: When Rules Get Rewritten
Know Thy @Neighbor: The End of Urban Anonymity and Rural Solitude
Grossology, Tolerant Taxis + Smart Bikes
Computerized Confessions: Biographies and Wedding Toasts in the Digital Age
Your So-Called Future Life: Homes and To-Do Lists Get 'Smart'
Online Shopping Gets Real
Brain Drain: New York City Losing Out in Brain Biz