Cyber Celibate with Tiffany Ng

About this episode

Caitlin Begg interviews Tiffany Ng about Cyber Celibate, technology, and culture.

New York-based technology and culture writer Tiffany Ng and I sit down to speak about all things ⁠Cyber Celibate⁠ , Neo-Luddism, whimsy, 'rawdogging vacation', chaining her phone to a wall for a week, ⁠HTML energy⁠ , and her MIT Technology Review article " ⁠How to break free of Spotify's algorithm⁠ ". ⁠Cyber Celibate⁠ Tiffany's ⁠Instagram⁠ (@tffanyng) and ⁠TikTok⁠ (@cybercelibate) Some of Tiffany's other interesting articles... WIRED: ⁠The Best Programming Language for the End of the World ⁠ MIT Technology Review: ⁠Recapturing Early-Internet Whimsy with HTML⁠ MIT Technology Review: ⁠Meet the man building a starter kit for civilization⁠ It's Nice That: ⁠Work better this year (or don't, it's your life)

People in this episode

Host: Caitlin Begg

Guest: Tiffany Ng

Topics covered

• technology
• culture
• Neo-Luddism
• digital detox
• internet culture
• whimsy

Keywords

• Cyber Celibate
• Neo-Luddism
• digital detox
• MIT Technology Review
• internet culture
• whimsy
• HTML energy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MIT Technology Review, WIRED, It's Nice That

Books & works: How to break free of Spotify's algorithm, The Best Programming Language for the End of the World, Recapturing Early-Internet Whimsy with HTML, Meet the man building a starter kit for civilization, Work better this year (or don't, it's your life)

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