Technology, attention, and responsibility in conversation.
Digital Mindfulness brings careful guest conversations to questions of AI, cybercrime, apps, smart buildings, and digital wellness. Its best moments connect technical systems back to work habits, social impact, human flourishing, and everyday control.
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Digital Mindfulness is a thoughtful interview series about the way technology shapes attention, work, health, business, buildings, media, and social responsibility. It is not a gadget show. Its interest sits in the relationship between digital systems and the people who have to live inside them. Episodes often begin with a practical question, then widen into ethics, design, wellbeing, or power. A conversation about cybercrime becomes a look at hacker motivations, media manipulation, leaked personal data, and the mythology of the lone wolf hacker. A conversation about AI-first companies becomes a discussion of prediction, product purpose, climate change, and responsible adoption. The show gives guests room to think out loud. That slower pace is part of its value. Rather than compressing ideas into slogans, it lets a topic gather shape through definitions, examples, and follow-up questions. Digital wellbeing is treated as more than screen-time anxiety. It includes workplace norms, app notifications, persuasive technologies, collective flourishing, and the possibility that tools can either strengthen or weaken connection. The show also reaches into less obvious corners of tech culture, including intelligent buildings, indoor environments, aeroponic farming, early stage tech for good investment, and the digital habits of large organizations. Its recurring concern is usefulness with consequences. Apps should earn attention. AI systems should solve problems people actually have. Companies should think about responsibility before adoption becomes irreversible. Buildings and cities should become smarter in ways that serve communities as well as efficiency. The result is calm, earnest, and intellectually curious. It suits listeners who like long-form conversations where business, design, ethics, and wellbeing meet. The show is strongest when a guest brings a concrete case and the discussion patiently traces what that case reveals about modern digital life.
Made for: Digital Mindfulness is for listeners who care about technology’s social effects as much as its capabilities. It fits founders, product thinkers, workplace leaders, designers, wellness professionals, and curious listeners who prefer careful interviews over fast opinion.
What sets it apart: The show links fields that are often kept separate: AI, cybercrime, app design, workplace stress, smart buildings, and personal wellbeing. Its distinguishing habit is returning every technical topic to human consequences and practical responsibility.
Join us weekly on the Digital Mindfulness podcast as we explore the forefront of intentional technologies, digital well-being, and responsible digital transformation. Discover insights from global leaders and experts on harnessing technology for meaningful and ethical impact in business and life. Tune in for compelling conversations that inspire intentional digital change.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Digital Mindfulness connects technology strategy to the product choices, incentives and human consequences that determine whether innovation is genuinely useful.
Digital Mindfulness keeps technology attached to the choices people make with it. The host uses guest interviews to move between personal habits, product design, company strategy and public harm, asking how a tool changes behavior and who bears responsibility for the result.
The hoodie hacker meets a four-person team; your mental movie may need recasting.
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Cybercrime is framed as a shared practice of tools, forums, and myths rather than a lone-wolf fantasy.
Cybercrime is treated less like lone genius and more like a shared practice built on myth, forums, scanning, and trial and error. The guest cuts against the familiar hacker image, stressing that finding a hole is only the start; knowing what to do after a database opens is its…
A focused case for AI-first companies, with responsibility and product usefulness kept in view.
Ash Fontana makes the case that companies need to be AI first now, arguing that the basis of competition is shifting and that good software alone is no longer enough.
A patient look at how tech-for-good ideas move from ethical intent to funded startups.
Paul Miller, CEO of Bethnal Green Ventures, gives the episode its clearest shape by treating tech for good as a funding problem, a design problem, and a scale problem at once.
Digital wellbeing here is treated as a lived practice, not a slogan.
Digital Mindfulness treats digital wellbeing as a question of connection rather than screen time. Greta Rossi, who leads Recipes for Wellbeing, describes technology as shaping how people relate to themselves, to one another, and to the wider world, while the host keeps the…
A clear look at app value, notifications, and subscriptions through a Google Play discussion.
Digital Mindfulness takes a practical look at app design, with Jenny Miles of Google Play outlining how persuasive technologies can still support meaningful digital experiences.
Host Jack Rhysider narrates true hacking, breach, and privacy stories from the people involved.
David Pierce and Verge staffers cover AI industry news, gadgets, and tech policy weekly.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
David Sparks and Stephen Robles dig into Keyboard Maestro, Shortcuts, and Mac automation weekly.
The episode opens with a sharp take on mainstream media as a system.
Ash Fontana argues that companies need to be AI first now.
Paul Miller, CEO of Bethnal Green Ventures, explains why technology matters for tech for good: it can help a solution reach millions of people instead of hundreds, which he frames as an ethical reason to use technology for urgent social and environmental problems.
The host opens by asking how technology changes the way people relate to themselves, to others, and to the wider world.
Jenny Miles of Google Play talks about meaningful app businesses.
Host Lawrence Ampofo interviews Laura Willis, co-founder of Shine Offline, about how employers can help employees achieve digital balance and reduce stress from constant connectivity.
Ken Sinclair discusses how technology can make buildings more intelligent, green, and connected, aligning with digital mindfulness principles.
An interview with Jeremy McCarthy about digital wellness and how to intentionally use technology for well-being.