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It's ok to take a walk without headphones | RadReads

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Your AirPods now magically follow you across devices. Gone are the awkward transitions (“hold on, let me connect my AirPods”) while fiddling with your Bluetooth settings and pressing that random button on the white case. Now you can gracefully glide from podcast, to Zoom call, to Discover Weekly, to Clubhouse, to audiobooks while enlisting Siri’s help. Seamlessly and without interruption. Yet it turns out that our headphones have been following us for much longer than a MacOS update. Remember that original promise “1,000 songs in your Pocket?” That was 20 years ago. “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” wrote the 17th century philosopher Blaise Pascal. Yet thanks to these white little earbuds, we never need to spend that quiet time alone. Do all of life’s moments need to be productive moments? To answer that question, let’s distinguish between two types of activities: telic and atelic. Stemming from the Greek term Telos (“Having an inher

The Big Sur MacOS update delivers a delightful Easter Egg. Your AirPods now magically follow you across devices. Gone are the awkward transitions (“hold on, let me connect my AirPods”) while fiddling with your Bluetooth settings and pressing that random button on the white case. Now you can gracefully glide from podcast, to Zoom call, to Discover Weekly, to Clubhouse, to audiobooks while enlisting Siri’s help. Seamlessly and without interruption. Yet it turns out that our headphones have been following us for much longer than a MacOS update. Remember that original promise “1,000 songs in…

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