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Note to Self

Note to Self

WNYC Studios

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. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts, including Radiolab, Death, Sex & Money, Snap Judgment, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, Nancy and many others. © WNYC Studios
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Note to Self episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Note to Self for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Note to Self episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Note to Self - How to Create Good Digital Citizens
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10/14/19 • 20 min

Right from wrong. We teach our kids what this means in the classroom and at home. But whatabout online? The next generation of tech users could be a part of much more civilized digitaluniverse, but only if they learn how now. Manoush talks to Richard Culatta (CEO of theInternational Society for Technology in Education) about the five steps to creating good digitalcitizens, and how to turn the current online “culture shift” into something positive, respectful, andmore accessible to all.

Sign up for Manoush’s newsletter StableG.com/newsletter and find her other podcasts atZigZagPod.com and IRLPodcast.com

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Note to Self - Talking to Myself

Talking to Myself

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10/11/17 • 22 min

The Replika app chats with you, learns from you, and reflects you back. It starts to become you. And your AI self gets pretty real.

Journalist Mike Murphy used the app to create his mini-me, and wrote about it for Quartz.

After months of talking to himself, he had a breakthrough. And some questions about how we define humanness.

You can find Mike’s story here.

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Note to Self - Is the Opioid Epidemic a Tech Problem?
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04/18/18 • 26 min

We visit the Dark Web, where you can get heroin, fentanyl and oxycontin shipped right to your door. This week, the link between online drug markets and America’s opioid crisis.

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For the next several weeks you'll hear the “Best of” Note to Self in your podcast feed. Our favorite episodes. Manoush will be working on some other projects, but she’ll be back before you know it with some changes and surprises. Keep in touch with her on Twitter, Instagram, and on her website.

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Note to Self - Save the Planet! Part 5: Do Over?
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08/02/17 • 9 min

We were going to have to talk about it eventually. No, not Elon Musk (although yes, he does come up). Mars. Planet B.

The last episode in our five-part series, with TED science curator David Biello.

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Note to Self - Escape From Yahoo!

Escape From Yahoo!

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07/26/17 • 18 min

It’s 2017, and Manoush still has a Yahoo account. Is her exit strategy an encrypted file in Switzerland? This week, the tech loyalties we keep past their expiration date, and how to move on - technically and emotionally.

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Note to Self - The Fourth Amendment Needs Your Attention
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05/02/18 • 22 min

This week, the Supreme Court cases that defined privacy for the digital age. Because the founding fathers didn’t write the Bill of Rights with the internet in mind.

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For the next several weeks you'll hear the “Best of” Note to Self in your podcast feed. Our favorite episodes. Manoush will be working on some other projects, but she’ll be back before you know it with some changes and surprises. Keep in touch with her on Twitter, Instagram, and on her website.

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Note to Self - I Didn’t See Your Text
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10/04/17 • 15 min

And other fibs we tell our friends, family and lovers. Psychotherapist Esther Perel is back to call us on our bullsh*t.

This is the second of our two-parter on how our phones create such intimacy and such distance. Esther’s new book is The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity. Listen to part one here.

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Note to Self - How To Have No Filter
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04/04/18 • 19 min

Today, listener stories and tips: we wrap up our No Filter series of conversations about how women live online.

From YouTube megastar Lele Pons to iconic artist Barbara Kruger, we heard a joyous mix of vulnerable confessions, utter defiance, and (for once) a mostly positive vision of what being a woman on the web can look like. To wrap it up, stories from you. About how you’re reconciling the IRL you with the online you. Plus, The Cut’s editor-in-chief Stella Bugbee is back with her greatest hope for the next generation of women in the workplace.

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Some podcast news: For the next several weeks you'll hear the “Best of” Note to Self in your podcast feed. Our favorite episodes. Manoush will be working on some other projects, but she’ll be back before you know it with some changes and surprises. Keep in touch with her on Twitter, Instagram, and on her website.

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Note to Self - No Filter: Jasmyn Lawson
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04/03/18 • 18 min

The woman behind some of your favorite gifs takes us to the future. See what being a woman on the web may look like.

We couldn’t close out No Filter, our series on women owning it online, without profiling Jasmyn Lawson, former culture editor at Giphy. That's the search engine that houses all those looped videos we use to express emotion - and ourselves - online. But when Jasmyn started working there, she couldn’t find many gifs that looked like her. "Just having Beyonce and Rihanna and Nicki Minaj is not enough to say you're representing black women." So she made her own.

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Some podcast news: For the next several weeks you'll hear the “Best of” Note to Self in your podcast feed. Our favorite episodes. Manoush will be working on some other projects, but she’ll be back before you know it with some changes and surprises. Keep in touch with her on Twitter, Instagram, and on her website.

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Note to Self - Play Video Games for Your Mental Health
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10/18/17 • 28 min

You judge the person playing Candy Crush. Even when it’s you. But that mental fist pump from leveling up has real value. How to stop judging and use games for a strategic reset.

With game designer and futurist Jane McGonigal, author of SuperBetter and Reality is Broken.

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FAQ

How many episodes does Note to Self have?

Note to Self currently has 299 episodes available.

What topics does Note to Self cover?

The podcast is about Radio, Public, New, Tech, Podcasts, York, Wnyc, City, Self-Improvement, Technology, Education, Npr, Business and Self.

What is the most popular episode on Note to Self?

The episode title 'How to Create Good Digital Citizens' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Note to Self?

The average episode length on Note to Self is 20 minutes.

How often are episodes of Note to Self released?

Episodes of Note to Self are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Note to Self?

The first episode of Note to Self was released on Jul 17, 2013.

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