{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Analog-ish: Seeking low-tech ideas in a high-tech world","title":"Breaking Free from Always Being \"On\" with Jordan Maney","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2080,"description":"In this episode, you'll hear from Jordan Maney, the Radical Joy Coach, about how tech has fundamentally changed our relationship to rest and joy. Jordan helps people recovering from burnout use rest as a space to experiment with joyful living while transitioning into something kinder. You'll explore how social media shifted from an event to a constant presence, why scrolling puts your nervous system into survival mode instead of flow state, and what it means to reclaim your energy, attention, and time from platforms designed to keep you hooked. Jordan shares practical tools like social media office hours, the \"look up\" method for breaking scroll cycles, and her powerful definition of rest as an act of reclamation. This conversation is a permission slip to stop being constantly on.\nTopics Covered:\nHow social media evolved from an event (something you logged into intentionally) to a constant, exhausting presence that has fundamentally changed our relationship to rest\nWhy the fluctuation between cute dog videos and war footage on our feeds is traumatizing our nervous systems and keeping us in a perpetual state of survival mode\nThe myth of multitasking and how scrolling while doing other things actually prevents us from achieving flow states and genuine rest\nSocial media office hours: what they are, how they help manage capacity, and why setting external expectations protects your internal boundaries\nThe \"look up\" method — a simple embodied practice to interrupt the scroll cycle by literally lifting your eyes, breathing, and asking yourself what you're actually getting from being online\nWhy rest isn't boring or uncomfortable: Jordan's definition of rest as the energy, attention, and time you return to yourself, and how that reclamation can be joyful and generative\nThe attention economy and how platforms are systematically designed to rob us of our attention, making it crucial to bring intentionality to every interaction with tech\nWhy Germans disappear for the entire...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fPW6xaQdObbHuGsU5vjZ9UAqm4t6N4aArny6duTpePk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kN2E3/YWU0N2NiMGJlMjU5/ZmQ1OWRiODgyOWJk/YzRjYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}