Technology and Trust: On Building the Relationship

HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully Alive · Nov 16, 2023 · 38m

"I'm a big believer in boredom…. All the [technology] stuff is wonderful, but having nothing to do can be wonderful, too." Thought-provoking words from the man whose company produces one of the most powerful tools for distracting ourselves from any feelings of boredom. Not only Steve Jobs, but seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal, too, understood the dangers of perpetual entertainment, the inability to sit alone in a room by oneself.

Given the current cultural moment, a particular arena in which children—and, indeed, parents too—need to grow in self-mastery is that of screens…