{"id":1094,"date":"2026-07-06T10:10:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:10:48","slug":"introducing-how-to-touch-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=1094","title":{"rendered":"Introducing How to Touch Grass"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><strong>Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A common piece of advice for those who are chronically online is to \u201cgo touch grass.\u201d This upcoming season of <em>How To<\/em>, co-hosts Natalie Brennan and Julie Beck will look more closely at the often-fraught, always-changing relationship people have with technology. They\u2019ll explore how people can be more intentional with their devices, rebuild their attention span, and find a way to thrive in this fast-paced, image-driven culture. Episodes will feature personal experimentation and conversations with experts in anxiety, education, and new technology. The first episode of <em>How to Touch Grass <\/em>publishes Monday, July 27, and new episodes are released every Monday for five weeks. Subscribe now.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=1092\">From Idaho B Roll<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking for additional offline inspiration right now? Sign up for Ordinary Extraordinary, Ian Bogost\u2019s guide to making everyday life vivid again.<\/p>\n<p><em>The following is a transcript:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Julie Beck: <\/strong>If you had one word\u2014it can be any part of speech you want\u2014to describe your overall relationship to technology at this moment in time, what would that word be?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Person 1:<\/strong> Antagonistic?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Person 2: <\/strong>Complicated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Person 3:<\/strong> Fraught.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Person 4:<\/strong> Connection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Person 5:<\/strong> \u200aI was gonna say \u201creluctant,\u201d but maybe that\u2019s not right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<em>Music<\/em>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Julie Beck:<\/strong> I\u2019m Julie Beck, a staff writer at <em>The Atlantic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Natalie Brennan:<\/strong> And I\u2019m Natalie Brennan, a producer at <em>The Atlantic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beck:<\/strong> And in this upcoming season of <em>How To<\/em>, we\u2019ll be exploring the often-fraught, always-changing relationship people have with technology. And the ways that in this moment, the terms of the relationship are being renegotiated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clay Routledge:<\/strong> Around two-thirds of Gen Z adults say they\u2019re nostalgic for a time before they were alive. They love technology, but they wanna be in control of it, not feel controlled by it.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=1090\">Music Is in Its Flop Era<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brennan: <\/strong>We\u2019ve been thinking a lot about how our relationship with our devices is all tangled up in our relationships to one another.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jenny Odell: <\/strong>We don\u2019t realize how much of our habits kind of live in other people around us. Think about it: When do you pick up your phone? It\u2019s when the person you\u2019re talking to picks up their phone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beck: <\/strong>And how tech helps us solve some problems, while also creating new ones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sophie Gilbert:<\/strong> I don\u2019t think anyone is supposed to see their own face as much as we do now. We\u2019re just like <em>front-facing camera, front-facing camera, front-facing camera<\/em>, and it\u2019s weird. It\u2019s warping our brains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brennan:<\/strong> We\u2019re searching for ways to un-warp our brains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beck: <\/strong>\u200aA common piece of advice for those who have been brain-rotted by the internet is to \u201cgo touch grass.\u201d Um, so are you also telling us to touch grass?<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=1088\">What Trump\u2019s July 4 Speech Revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Odell:<\/strong> Yeah, pretty much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<em>Music<\/em>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beck: <\/strong>Coming this summer is <em>How to Touch Grass<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brennan: <\/strong>The first episode arrives Monday, July 27. 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