Logging off.
Rebuilding our attention spans.
Trading in smartphones for dumb phones.
Why are people trying to get off their screens?
And what are they really after?
I'm Natalie Brennan, a producer at The Atlantic.
And I'm Julie Beck, a staff writer at The Atlantic.
This season, we're exploring the often fraught, always changing relationship people have with technology.
And examining the ways our devices affect our connection with one another.
New episodes of How to Touch Grass come out every Monday.
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A few months ago, I invited Atlantic staff writer Charlie Worzel onto The David Frum Show.
As podcast hosts, we talked about the pressures and temptations of the medium.
Outrage often gets rewarded.
Nuance does not.
Charlie doesn't take that bait.
On his show Galaxy Brain, he covers the ways technology is changing how we think and how we live.
Not just the obvious stuff, but the subtle ways it shapes what we believe, talk to each other,
how we see ourselves and our neighbors.
If you've ever wondered how smart people end up believing implausible things online, Galaxy Brain is worth your time.