Note to Self
Is your phone watching you? Can texting make you smarter? Are your kids real? Note to Self explores these and other essential quandaries facing anyone trying to preserve their humanity in the digital age.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 299
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2019
A Labor Revolution or a Return to Serfdom: Could You Thrive in the Gig Economy?
Freelance nation. Micro-work. The gig economy. Call it what you like, it's growing. But can you really make a living taking one-off jobs from websites like TaskRabbit or Fiverr? Fast Company writer …
The Hottest Thing From Google Is Over Before It Began
This post is by New Tech City host Manoush Zomorodi.
The Simple Steps Behind World Class Efficiency
The Toyota Production System was developed to maximize efficiency on the auto production line, but some of its guiding principles — "just-in-time" and "built-in-quality" — can be applied to daily lif…
Emoji Gone Wild: We Text Without Words for a Month
The more we access the web from mobile devices, the more visual our communications seem to become. Smartphone cameras enable us to express ourselves through the photos and videos we spread around on …
Holstee Manifesto: The History of the One Motivational Poster that Pervades Startup Culture
The Holstee Manifesto motivates a bewildering number of startups and tech companies—Google, AirBnb, Threadless, Zappos, TED and more all hang the poster on their walls. This week's New Tech City podc…
Machine Learning + Love
Log onto an online dating site and you are asking a machine for romantic assistance. That's cool, but you might as well understand how it works, right?
There's an algorithm picking and choosing which…
The World Would be a Better Place if We [DELETED]
Let's embrace the delete key, and imagine a world where all our e-clutter wasn't just auto archived by big corporations.
When you send a someone a message on Snapchat, for instance, the recipient has…
Mindhacking: Finding Serenity in a Tech-Obsessed World
Join our host Manoush Zomorodi for a "digital detox" at the intersection of Buddhism and technology.
Because, you see, Manoush is an addict.
A Pinterest addict.
Like many tech lovers who find it hard…
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, But Does Airbnb?
Chris is a musician who makes $100 a night by renting out a room in his apartment on Manhattan's West Side through Airbnb, the short-term home rental service. In other part of town, Ken is a landlord…
How to Be a Young Boss (Or Work for One)
There are a lot of baby-faced CEOs in the tech sector. But how can someone who's never had a job be a great boss? We bring you three (and a half) personal stories about running companies at extremely…
Cicada 3301: The Great Internet Mystery Solved!
For the last two years in January, an enigmatic message has appeared on the internet from an unknown source signed "3301," sending thousands in search of answers to increasingly complicated puzzles a…
The Tipping Point: How Amazon Reached It and Why This Startup Hasn’t
For this Christmas edition of New Tech City, a look back at two of our favorite segments from 2013. If you're like millions of other shoppers, you probably ordered at least a few gifts on the online …
Dude, Where's My Bitcoin? Tales of Real People Dealing With a Virtual Currency
Bitcoins. Bitcoins. Bitcoins. These days, you can’t swing a digital cat without reading a story about the digital currency that’s got tech and financial reporters all in a froth. It’s complicated (th…
Can You *Like* God?
The millenial generation has a reputation for selfies, oversharing and cat memes, but many faith leaders are flocking to platforms like Facebook and Twitter to attract more of these young people to t…
How To Kick Digital Butt in a 21st-Century Workplace
Workers of every age have to keep their tech smarts up to date to stay relevant in today's workplace.
I Love You Mother Earth, But I Love My iPhone More
You love the planet and your gadgets, so how do you find a balance?
Bringing the Internet to Public Housing, Your Neighbors and a Unicorn
This week on New Tech City, we're crossing the digital divide.
These Games Could Be Good for Young Brains
Games have power, so this week, we play a few that can motivate kids to learn more, whether they realize it or not. And we see how a test case of a new technology for football might help keep young h…
A Civic Call for NYC Techies: Bring Digital Talent into Public School Classrooms
Andrew Rasiej, chairman of NY Tech Meetup, argues that tech talent can do more for kids and New York's tech sector, if talented programmers get more involved in the classroom.
Programming Families: How Kids are Like Software, and What the Government Could Learn From It
Coders have a very specific way of working, it’s called Agile. One family decided to apply it to their lives. What if healthcare.gov had too?