This is a show about being human and having regular normal human experiences. Surrounded by apps that are demanding are undivided attention. But fear not, this is not a show about digital detoxes or quitting social media for 40 days, and coming back to our usual twitter shenanigans. On the contrary we will be talking about communities. Architecting our own online experiences and taking back our attention bit by bit. There is no schedule, each episode is unique, so it can be,  just me sitting and talking about something, or an interview with someone interesting. That's on the path of decoupling the technology from their day to day lives.   Thank you for your attention. The podcast is available on every podcasting platform out there.  

Hi I'm Anna! This is Ex Technologist a podcast where I detangle our lives from technologies. Productivity content is all over the internet. You know "10 things I do before 8AM" articles and "How I became millionaire by 10 years" type of content. I think as a society we need to move on from this clickbait sterile, context-less podcasts, youtube videos and so on.  In this episode I share why I personally don't like productivity content and what I do instead.

Are we trying to manufacture the teenage girl hype for Salesforce? Yup we totally are.

Community Weekly started as a response to the burnout I experienced in 2020. At the time the project was called Community Finder, which was basically a list of communities that people could discover and join. When Community Finder started to get some traction I had this “amazing” idea in my head “this thing should grow fast, and now!” So in addition to Community Finder, I also started a podcast, a newsletter and published a new article a week. All by myself. And as you might imagine this is where burnout entered the chat. As a response to that I made some radical changes. I stopped the Community Finder project, I stopped the podcast, and I only started to write the newsletter, and quickly changed it to Community Weekly. That is how the publication originated.

Everyone has a podcast that they anticipate every week. For me it's Software Social, hosted by Michele Hansen and Colleen Schnettler. It's a casual conversation between two friends sharing their journey as founders. In this episode, I talk to Michele about the origin story of their podcast, how she ended up writing a book about talking to people and empathy, and a potential merch for Software Social.

My guest today is Neville who runs quite a few projects. Podcast and newsletter for digital nomads of the future https://nevernormalshow.com/ Never Normal . https://qualityquestions.co/ Quality Questions newsletter and community where you learn how to apply advices on self-improvement and personal development. Online marketing agency https://nampora.com/ Nempora. 

In interview with Maia, creator and person behind Youtube channel Broey Deschanel. We talked about being a creator in an attention economy, relationships between creators and platforms, and what is the idea world for Maia as creator.

How to help your community members make meaningful connections? One of the answers for me and for David Kobrosky is making better introductions. Intros.ai is not a brand new community tool, it's a product that is nailing one specific part of community building: introductions. In our interview we talked about algorithms, how does Intros.AI work, what (who?) is the AI, why every community needs a Chief Introductions Officer.