CZ 078: Jay Vidyarthi, Attention Activist, Designer, Mindful Technologist
Catching Z's: The Millennials Guide to Mindfulness
English - August 19, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 49.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSpirituality Religion & Spirituality Society & Culture meditation mindfulness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Jay has a lot of experience in the design field and you can feel the mindfulness influence that he brings to his work. The way that he approaches thinking about design concepts is refreshing and forward thinking. We chat about:
Getting exposed to meditation growing up in India and being taught the gayatri mantra
How a jam session turned into getting deeper into meditation
The ups and downs of sitting on a 10 day retreat
Tips of how to keep going when starting out in meditation
Getting into human computer interaction design
Taking feedback on his early design concepts in graduate school
Why Technologists should take a hippocratic oath towards product design
What good technology design looks like
Being an Attention activist
Why he’s hopeful for the future of mindfulness and technology