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- 6| Jaron LanierJaron Lanier’s new book Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now is opening the world’s eyes to the real world consequences of social media’s business model based on maximum addiction and distraction. And it goes way beyond wasting the precious hours of your life. Lanier makes an almost unassailable case that these social media platforms degrade us. But can we give them up? Jaron Lanier is the author of several best selling titles on technology and how they shape our world and worth listening to when he raises the alarm.Buy: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right NowAuthor Website: JaronLanier.comSupport WeCroak on PatreonDownload our app, as featured in 10% Happier, Atlantic Magazine and The New York Times, at WeCroak.comSounds by James MercerDownload54 min
- 5| Frank Ostaseski
Frank Ostaseski is an internationally respected Buddhist teacher and visionary cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, and founder of the Metta Institute. In this episode we talk about his new book The Five Invitations: Discovering what Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully based on his years of caring for dying people and the unexpected joys that come when the knowledge of death is near.
Buy: The Five Invitations: Discovering what Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
Author Website: FiveInvitations.com
Support WeCroak on Patreon
Download our app, as featured in 10% Happier, Atlantic Magazine and The New York Times, at WeCroak.com
Sounds by James Mercer
53 min - 5| Frank OstaseskiFrank Ostaseski is an internationally respected Buddhist teacher and visionary cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, and founder of the Metta Institute. In this episode we talk about his new book The Five Invitations: Discovering what Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully based on his years of caring for dying people and the unexpected joys that come when the knowledge of death is near.Buy: The Five Invitations: Discovering what Death Can Teach Us About Living FullyAuthor Website: FiveInvitations.comSupport WeCroak on PatreonDownload our app, as featured in 10% Happier, Atlantic Magazine and The New York Times, at WeCroak.comSounds by James Mercer53 min
- 4| Adam Cayton-Holland
Adam Cayton-Holland was named a top 25 comic to watch by Esquire and creates, writes and stars in the hit show “Those Who Can’t.” He also just came out with his first book, “Tragedy + Time: A Tragic Comic Memoir” about his sister’s life and suicide. Our conversation is about his family and how he found laughter even when the worst things were happening.
Buy: Tragedy + Time
Support WeCroak on Patreon
Download our app, as featured in 10% Happier, Atlantic Magazine and The New York Times, at WeCroak.com
Sounds by James Mercer
44 min - 4| Adam Cayton-HollandAdam Cayton-Holland was named a top 25 comic to watch by Esquire and creates, writes and stars in the hit show “Those Who Can’t.” He also just came out with his first book, “Tragedy + Time: A Tragic Comic Memoir” about his sister’s life and suicide. Our conversation is about his family and how he found laughter even when the worst things were happening.Buy: Tragedy + TimeSupport WeCroak on PatreonDownload our app, as featured in 10% Happier, Atlantic Magazine and The New York Times, at WeCroak.comSounds by James MercerDownload44 min
- 3| Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman is a theoretical physicist, author of six novels, meditator and professor who has served at both Harvard and MIT. His latest memoir Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine is as much about finding beauty in the natural world as understanding the science behind how it changes all the time. On the WeCroak podcast we get deep into the science of how everything is going to disappear given enough time.
Buy: Searching for Stars on an Island In Maine
Support WeCroak on Patreon
Download our app, as featured in 10% Happier, Atlantic Magazine and The New York Times, at WeCroak.com
Sounds by James Mercer
54 min - 3| Alan LightmanAlan Lightman is a theoretical physicist, author of six novels, meditator and professor who has served at both Harvard and MIT. His latest memoir Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine is as much about finding beauty in the natural world as understanding the science behind how it changes all the time. On the WeCroak podcast we get deep into the science of how everything is going to disappear given enough time.Buy: Searching for Stars on an Island In MaineSupport WeCroak on PatreonDownload our app, as featured in 10% Happier, Atlantic Magazine and The New York Times, at WeCroak.comSounds by James Mercer54 min
- 2| Sallie TisdaleSallie Tisdale is the author of nine books and today we are talking about her most recent Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them). Tisdales writing has also appeared in Harper’s, Antioch Review, Conjunctions, Threepenny Review, The New Yorker, and Tricycle, among other journals. As a palliative care nurse, meditator and writer, this WeCroak podcast episode is about what we do and don’t do when death is near.Buy: Advice for Future CorpsesAuthor’s WebsiteSupport WeCroak on PatreonDownload our app, as featured in 10% Happier, Atlantic Magazine and The New York Times, at WeCroak.comSounds by James Mercer54 min
- 2| Sallie TisdaleSallie Tisdale is the author of nine books and today we are talking about her most recent Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them). Tisdales writing has also appeared in Harper’s, Antioch Review, Conjunctions, Threepenny Review, The New Yorker, and Tricycle, among other journals. As a palliative care nurse, meditator and writer, this WeCroak podcast episode is about what we do and don’t do when death is near.Buy: Advice for Future CorpsesAuthor’s WebsiteSupport WeCroak on Patreon.Download our app, as featured in 10% Happier, Atlantic Magazine and The New York Times, at WeCroak.com.Sounds by James Mercer54 min
- 1| Massimo PigliucciMassimo Pigliucci is the professor of philosophy at City University of New York who wrote the book How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life. It’s about the author’s own journey finding the right practical philosophy for living in today’s modern chaos by listening to voices from early Rome and Greece. In this episode we discuss why ancients reminded themselves every time they kissed their spouse that they loved a mortal and much much more.Stoic week 2018 begins Monday 1st October. Learn MoreBuy: How To Be A StoicAuthor’s WebsiteSupport WeCroak on PatreonDownload our app, as featured in 10% Happier, Atlantic Magazine and The New York Times, at WeCroak.comSounds by James Mercer49 min
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