Jenny Odell on How to Do Nothing
This week, Jenny Odell teaches Jon how to unplug and, almost literally, smell the roses. Pulling from lessons outlined in her book “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy,” Jenny makes the...
23 Jan 202250min
Chimamanda Adichie on the Death of Good Faith
This week, the writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie joins Jon to talk through the viral essay on social media that she wrote last June. The two discuss what compelled her to write that essay, how the inter...
16 Jan 202258min
Alex Stamos on Leaving Facebook and Zuckerberg's Reign
This week on Offline, Jon is joined by Alex Stamos, Facebook’s former Chief Security Officer. As Jon’s first guest who has worked at a social media company, Alex gives us a first-hand look at Facebook...
9 Jan 202251min
Mailbag Episode with Jon and Emily Favreau
Jon and Emily Favreau sit down for a special mailbag episode. They answer any questions (yes, any and all) submitted by listeners like you.For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. F...
2 Jan 202243min
Elizabeth Bruenig on Forgiving Trolls and Strangers
The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig joins Jon this week on Offline to discuss something the internet was never built for: forgiveness. Exploring faith, political polarization, and cancel culture, Jon and...
19 Dec 202155min
Dr. Vivek Murthy on Defeating Doomscrolling with Human Connection
Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy joins Jon on Offline to dissect the intersection between the internet and our emotional well-being. Dr. Murthy delivers a doctor’s diagnosis on Jon’s ceaseless doomscr...
12 Dec 202150min
Charlie Warzel on Facebook's Original Sin
For the last decade, Charlie Warzel has covered the internet and culture at BuzzFeed News, The New York Times, and his newsletter Galaxy Brain. He joins Jon to talk about the architecture behind our p...
5 Dec 202152min
DeRay Mckesson on How Twitter Saved Black Lives
From the creation of #BlackLivesMatter to the first permanent ban, DeRay Mckesson has been at the center of some of Twitter’s highest highs and some of its lowest lows. He joins Jon to talk about how ...
28 Nov 202147min
