The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 14 The impact of social technology on wellbeing and resilience

In this episode, Sukh welcomes back Mark Gilroy. They have a full discussion about the impact of modern social technology such as email, social media and apps like WhatsApp have on our wellbeing and resilience. It's a great conversation, with some really nice exploration of how they both grew up with technology and gaming in different ways, what they've learned about how to control their usage of technology, and how they've learned to use apps and notifications differently. They give some great tips such as:

• Manage your WhatsApp groups by 'muting' the notifications
• Turn off the Outlook notifications for new emails so you're in control of when you check your email
• Move the unimportant apps from your smartphone home screen so you're not tempted to check when you see there are unread messages

You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.

Mark is the Managing Director of TMSDI. You can find out more about the company at tmsdi.com and connect with Mark on Twitter @ThatMarkGilroy.

During the episode, Mark talks about the following references:

New York Times article - How modern times are like a zombie onslaught https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/arts/television/05zombies.html?pagewanted=all

Academy of Management paper - what happens when we receive emails out of hours or on annual leave? https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amj.2014.0170

Harvard Business Review article - How to kill creativity https://hbr.org/1998/09/how-to-kill-creativity

New Scientist article - Info-mania https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7298-info-mania-dents-iq-more-than-marijuana/

Apple press release - Reduce interruptions and manage screen time https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2018/06/ios-12-introduces-new-features-to-reduce-interruptions-and-manage-screen-time/

Link to Tim Wu's book - The Attention Merchants http://www.timwu.org/AttentionMerchants.html