Video Topic: Using tech to enhance your real-world hobbies to decrease your negative usage of it

Brainstorming notes from lab

  • Logic puzzle books encourage looking at things in different ways
  • Sitting down and letting your imagination run wild on paper enables more creativity in the future
  • Any long-term hobby that encourages deep learning and creativity
    • Also encourages self-learning
    • Programming, learning an instrument, etc.
  • Team-leading exercises that help you with interpersonal skills and allocating tasks
    • Requires forward-thinking planning and logical thinking, analytical skills
  • Reading and learning about someone else to figure out how they thought and made choices
  • Imagination -> hobbies
    • Art, music, photography, cooking spawn creativity
  • The act of discovery gives a more powerful connection to something

 

Other notes

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/03/25/smartphones-make-us-sick-no-matter-how-many-health-apps-we-download/ideas/up-for-discussion/

“As for how mobile phones fit into our everyday lives, the key question is whether the technology is running you or you’re running the technology.” – Marry Harris

Ethan Zuckerman makes some good points about the necessity of communications tech in the modern age.