"Part of a pioneering movement."
TODAY SHOW
Press
The New York Times "24 Hours Without My Phone"
The Globe And Mail "Are we addicted to our screens?"
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Good Morning America "Creating a screen time detox for your family"
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The Today Show co-hosts Hoda Kotb & Maria Shriver talk with Tiffany Shlain about her new book, 24/6
SURFACE
Tiffany Shlain’s Tree Rings Transcend Time and Medium
MS. MAGAZINE
Tiffany Shlain’s Feminist Art Answers the ‘Urgent’ Call to Fight for Democracy and Women’s Place in History
7x7
With poignant multidisciplinary exhibits this fall, Marin filmmaker Tiffany Shlain spreads her branches.
And with the collision of her solo exhibition You Are Here at a New York gallery; the appearance of her sculpture Dendrofemonology at a Climate Week mobilization for women’s and environmental rights in Madison Square Park; and the opening of her most recent collaboration with husband Ken Goldberg, Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time & Technology, at the Getty’s Skirball Cultural Center in L.A., this behatted blonde goddess of multidimensional creativity has never wielded more influence.
ARTNET
Tiffany Shlain: You Are Here” at Nancy Hoffman Gallery
September 5–October 19, 2024
NY JEWISH WEEK
Witches, abortions, suffragists: Jewish artist Tiffany Shlain’s new work is a slice of women’s history
The piece is one of 12 multimedia works on view at Shlain’s debut solo exhibition, “You Are Here”, on view at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery (520 West 27th St.) beginning on Thursday, Sept. 5. For Shlain — a San Francisco-based multi-hyphenate whose previous credits include several films about feminist history, including “The Tribe”, a humorous examination of American Jewish identity through the lens of Barbie — the body of work is an outgrowth of her Shabbat afternoons spent among the redwood trees in Muir Woods National Monument and other state parks nearby.
NANCY HOFFMAN GALLERY
From September 5 through October 19, Nancy Hoffman Gallery will host its first solo exhibition of work by artist Tiffany Shlain, titled You Are Here.
“In the exhibition You Are Here, I will go back thousands of years in time, or thousands of miles in space, to reposition our relationship with nature and history,” explains Shlain. “By shifting our sense of scale, we see things differently: the earth, war, feminism, neuroscience, and our own lives. We gain a different perspective on where we are, and where we want to go.”
SURFACE MAGAZINE
To mark the opening of her exhibition on Washington DC's National Mall, artist-activist Tiffany Shlain convened women trailblazers to mark the occasion.
WHITEHOT MAGAZINE
Shlain’s new artwork Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring uses reclaimed cedar tree rings as a medium for re-writing women’s history with an “intentional counter-narrative to the typical patriarchal perspective.”
GETTY ANNOUNCES
Getty Announces PST: Art + Science Collide Initiative
“The worlds of art and science are set to collide every five years thanks to J. Paul Getty Trust and its collaborating institutions in the landmark event, PST Art: Art & Science Collide, returning in September 2024.”
SAN FRANCISCO MAGAZINE
The Bay Area's Hottest Artists, Galleries, and Exhibits
“Creativity isn't limited to fine art for Tiffany Shlain (tiffanyshlain.com). The artist-in-residence at the Ferry Building's new Shack15 (shack15.com) is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, and author of the national bestseller and winner of the Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award, 24/6...”
NATIONAL WOMEN'S
HISTORY MUSEUM
A Conversation with Tiffany Shlain
“Where I live in Northern California, we’re surrounded by two things: some of the oldest redwood trees in the world; and some of the newest technology. My career began in the former, in a dual dance between making films and working in tech, until those two loves merged. ”
PRINT MAGAZINE
Tiffany Shlain Made Feminist History Tree Rings
The old adage tells us to “stop and smell the roses,” but artist Tiffany Shlain advocates for stopping to count the tree rings. As a Bay Area native who grew up traipsing about the Muir Woods, Shlain has always had an affinity for trees, which only intensified in 2020, when she took to nature to fill her days....
NEW ART EXHIBITION
Tiffany Shlain's First Solo Art Exhibition Opens in San Francisco
“In Human Nature, I use a feminist, philosophical, and ecological lens to explore the humility and realignment we feel when we view ourselves in the context of deep time and nature. I want to conjure up the sublime: our sense of perspective, smallness, escape, refuge, and awe created by expansive vistas and towering trees that have stood as witnesses for thousands of years.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES
24 Hours Without My Phone.
I recommend a tech shabbat.
By David Leonhardt
In 2008, Tiffany Shlain’s father, Leonard, was diagnosed with brain cancer, and she began to change her use of technology when the two of them were together. “Some days he would have only one good hour,” she later wrote in the Harvard Business Review...”
FORTUNE
How Managers Can Make Time for Their Own Work
"I spoke with Tiffany Shlain, author of 24/6: Giving Up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection, to get her perspective on your situation. Tiffany is a modern polymath: a longtime tech aficionado who founded the Webby awards, filmmaker, and writer. Her writing focuses on the power of protecting your time and taking breaks from technology ...
THE WASHINGTON POST
A Better Week: Find Time for the Things You Care About
Long ago, your workweek ended once you left the office — or so I have been told. 
But work culture has changed a lot in the past decade. Technology has ended the physical barriers protecting a workweek, and we’re always reachable and we’re always exhausted.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Turn Tech to Your Advantage in the New Hybrid Workplace
When the pandemic blended our professional and personal lives by forcing many of us to work from home, we learned a valuable lesson about tech. It can be an incredibly useful tool for communicating with colleagues. But when used without care, it can hurt our productivity and our relationships.
ON BEING PODCAST
LIVING THE QUESTION
We’ve been enmeshed with our technologies. Tech Shabbat for everyone?
Krista’s been in a conversation with Tiffany Shlain for several years about her practice of “Tech Shabbat.” For more than a decade, she and her family have taken a rest from screens sundown Friday to sundown Saturday; her book 24/6 is a kind of manual to open the practice to everyone.
THE BOSTON GLOBE
The Case for a Tech Shabbat in a Too-connected World
by Tiffany Shlain
I USED TO feel good about getting work done throughout the weekend. I was a working parent starting an indie film studio, and anything that would help me stay on top of things was a win. Weekends were a chaotic mix of recreation and work ... (see PDF from printed article)
PEOPLE
BOOKS WORTH READING​
24/6 was featured in People Magazine. The book explores Tiffany and her family's decade-long practice of turning off all screens for 24 hours every week for what they call their Technology Shabbat. Character Day 2019 was all about the relationship between character + screens.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
In Praise of Being Unproductive
Are you productive? Efficient? Useful? More to the point, are you productive, efficient, and useful enough? These are the kinds of questions that arise when technology makes it easy to stay online and connected 24/7. But all this connectivity brings two unfortunate side effects.
FORBES
8 Reasons Why You Should Unplug One Day A Week
In her new book 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, Webby Award founder, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and mother of two Tiffany Shlain explores how turning off screens for 24 hours each week can work wonders on your brain, body, and soul.
THE SAN FRANCISCO
CHRONICLE
Challah giving sourdough some competition during coronavirus
Sourdough may be the celebrity loaf of #quarantinelife — and it is delicious and deserves all of the love and care and at least half of the amateur photos it’s getting — but it’s not the bread I’m suddenly baking.
NEW BOOK WORTH READING
PEOPLE MAGAZINE
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#1 BEST NEW TECH BOOK TO
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BOOK AUTHORITY​​
TOP TIME MANAGEMENT BOOKS TO READ
ENTREPRENEUR MAGAZINE​
"WISE, WONDERFUL WORK"
PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY
STARRED REVIEW
GREAT BOOKS YOU WON'T WANT TO PUT DOWN
REAL SIMPLE MAGAZINE​
​TOP 10 BUSINESS BOOKS
VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY​
TOP TEN BEST BOOKS
& HEATHER'S PICK
INDIGO BOOKS
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WIRED
Why the Webbys Award Founder goes Screen-Free One Day a Week​
Four times Tiffany Shlain's father bought his daughter the book ‘The Making of a Woman Surgeon’; four times she ignored it. Instead, she was fascinated by computers, starting with an Apple IIe. She connected to the internet long before the invention of the World Wide Web, and – back in 1987, as an 18-year-old – co-wrote a proposal called Uniting Nations in Telecommunications and Software, outlining a world where everyone has personal computers and uses them to communicate and drive social change.
THE WASHINGTON POST
In some ways, how Tiffany Shlain and her family observe Shabbat doesn’t look that different from how many Jewish families do. Shlain, who identifies as a cultural Jew, gathers friends and family for dinner on Friday evening. Then she, her husband and their two daughters unplug their devices for the next 24 hours.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
24 hours, no screens. Could you give up tech for one day each week?
I recently mentioned to an Uber driver that I was thinking of trying a whole-house day off from tech.
At first he seemed impressed by my lofty goal. Then we started talking about our families — and our teen children — and the constant presence of screens, and all the stressors they bring with them. Taking a break sounded like a dream.
DOLCE
It is bizarre to grasp the undeniable fact that in the last 25 years, the Internet and social media have become such an integrated, intrinsic part of our collective modus operandi that we have become completely and utterly hooked.
STYLE SONATA
Tiffany Shlain Talks Technology Shabbats, Spoken Cinema.
SS: Describe yourself in 3 words.
TS: Enthusiastic. Creative. Bold.
SS: Tell us a bit about the work you do and why you chose that field.
TS: I make films. I write books. I create experiences. I love moving people. I always like that films are called “movies,” because you can “move” people’s emotions, center of gravity or perspective.
MARIN MAGAZINE
A Conversation with Tech Innovator and Mother Tiffany Shlain
For three decades, Tiffany Shlain has been a poster child for the utility and promise of technology. As a Redwood High student in the late ’80s, she co-wrote a paper entitled "Uniting Nations in Telecommunications and Software" and traveled to the Soviet Union as a young tech ambassador.
CNET
Take Control of the Devices that Have Taken Control of You
For the millions of people now working at home, and likely for most everyone else, the coronavirus pandemic hasn't done wonders for our relationship with technology. When we're not glued to screens for Zoom meetings, Slack and email, we're doom-scrolling through the latest case numbers and, the looming November presidential election. It's a cycle that Tiffany Shlain...
MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL
Put down your phone and be here now
A few months ago, I arrived at work and realized I left my smartphone at home. I panicked.
How would my kids get in touch with me? Did I have a dermatologist appointment that day? What if that cute guy from a dating app texted me to see if I was free that night?
EARLY LEARNING NATION
Tiffany Shlain’s Vision for Building Community
The easiest way to describe Tiffany Shlain is to say she’s a documentary filmmaker, but her prolific output feels less like a set of discrete productions and more like a single evolving project, ruminating on an interconnected set of themes.
MMLaFleur
The Creator of the Internet’s Biggest Awards Regularly Turns Off Her Phone
Tiffany Shlain made a name for herself as the founder of the Webby Awards— known as “the Oscars of the web”—in 1996, when the internet was still considered a potential fad (it’s now safe to say she hitched her cart to the right horse).
Refinery29
The Best Books of 2019 Really Are The Best
Clear your schedules for September 10. That’s the day Queen Margaret Atwood is gracing her fans with The Testaments, the long-hoped-for sequel to the 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale. The Testaments is only one of many tantalizing books coming out this month.
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Mashable “Screenless Sundays or Tech Shabbat? Time to add one (or both) to your life.”​
NPR Morning Edition "A family finds a way to wean themselves from devices"
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Thrive Global "Media That Matters to Add to Your #MustList"
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Jewish News Syndicate “Why I think everyone should experience a 'Tech Shabbat'”
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Jewish Book Council “‘Making an Ancient Ritual Work’: A Conversation Between Beth Ricanati and Tiffany Shlain”
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The Jerusalem Post “Can Shabbat become a tool to improve human-technology relationship?”
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Wait Until 8th “24/6: The Power of Turning off All Screens as a Family One Day a Week”
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Religion News Service “Tiffany Shlain wants to bring Shabbat to 21st century by resting from tech”
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Sunset “The Unplugged Home”
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Forbes “5 Ways To Rethink Your Relationship To Social Media And Reclaim Your Time”
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Science & Film: Labocine “The Work of Tiffany Shlain”
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The J Weekly “Looking into the Future With Tiffany Shlain”
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Refinery29 “The Women’s History Narrative we Never Talk About”
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Jeducation World “Character Day 2019 Launches A Global Technology Shabbat Movement”
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British Airways “British Airways Highlights Film Director Tiffany Shlain”
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SouthWest Airlines Magazine profiles Tiffany
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KSL.com Addiction to the internet has put humans in a ‘Frankenstein moment,’ Sundance speaker says
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The J Weekly ‘We are unstoppable’: Planned Parenthood video from Tiffany Shlain
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Awesome List “Tiffany Shlain Talks Character Day, Mompreneurship And a Life In Tech”
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Mill Valley Film Festival Profile “Tiffany Shlain – Storyteller”
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The Hindu “Losing signal: on finding peace by ditching the smartphone”
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Media Post “Webby Awards Founder Tackles Gender”
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NPR Interview “Tiffany Shlain & The 50/50 Day Push for WorldWide Gender Equity”
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The Forward “Gender Equality Going Coast to Coast”
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Refinery29 “This Director Has The Plan to Keep International Women’s Day Energy Alive”
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All Things Connected “Radio Interview on 50/50 Day”
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Art Publika Magazine “Internet Advocate Tiffany Shlain Talks Cloud Films and the Art of Connecting People”
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The What “Friend of the Week: Tiffany Shlain”
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GrokNation “Barbie, Jewish Identity and Films That Create Conversation”
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Gratitude Revealed “Focus, Moxie and Effective Change in the World”
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Fashion Designer BCBG profiles Tiffany
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Forbes Podcast Interview “9 Ways to get Crazy Productive and Find Your Real Power”
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CineSource “Tiffany Shlain: Webmaster, Alt-Filmer or Philosopher”
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HuffPost Live “Tiffany Shlain At The 2015 World Economic Forum”
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The Project for Women “The New Influencer’s”
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Podcasts
On Being with Krista Tippett - We’ve been enmeshed with our technologies. Tech Shabbat for everyone?
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Design Matters with Debbie Millman “Tiffany Shlain”
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Cool Tools with Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder
The Next Billion Seconds with Mark Pesce "Day of Rest with Tiffany Shlain"
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On Being Interview “Growing Up The Internet”
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Book Nook "24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, by Tiffany Shlain"
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Call Your Mother "Unplugged"
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Sex with Emily "Turning Off to Get Turned On with Tiffany Shlain"
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Live Above the Noise "TIFFANY SHLAIN - EMMY-NOMINATED FILMMAKER, CO-FOUNDER OF CHARACTER DAY"
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Team Human "'Unplugging One Day a Week' + Tribute to Paul Krassner"
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Inflection Point "Tiffany Shlain on achieving 50/50 equality"
Wired “It's Time to Put Down Your Phone”
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The Brian Lehrer Show “Digital Day of Rest”
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Free Forum with Terrence McNally​ “Tiffany Shlain - 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week”
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Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books​ “Tiffany Shlain, 24/6: THE POWER OF UNPLUGGING ONE DAY A WEEK”
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Keen On "Tiffany Shlain on How Unplugging Can Save Society"
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Congregation Emanu-El "Tiffany Shlain: The Power of Unplugging"
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The JOMOcast with Christina Crook​ “The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, with Tiffany Shlain”
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Judaism Unbound​ “Six Days A Week - Tiffany Shlain”
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The Pausecast “Tiffany Shlain Author of 24/6”
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Tales of Silicon Valley “The Big Tune Out”
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Live Happy “The Power of Unplugging with Tiffany Shlain”
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Harvard Business Review Podcast “Building Your Character (at Least for a Day)”
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Insights at the Edge “Tiffany Shlain: Taking an Empowered and Creative Towards Technology”
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Technology for Mindfulness “Tiffany Shlain, Creator of the 'Technology Shabbat'”
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Brand New Ways “28: Emmy-nominated Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain”
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Dr. Nancy O'Reilly “Give Your Tech a Day of Rest and Reconnect with Yourself”
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Aspiriant's new Money Tales podcast
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Inside Journey with Johanna Beyer and Kim Morrow
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Aunt Nelly's House with Janelle Burley Hoffman and her sister
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On Leadership with Scott Miller "The Power on Powering Down" with Tiffany Shlain
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Op-Eds
Fast Company - Here’s how to make Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter fun again
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Psychology Today - "Surfing Lessons for a Pandemic"
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The Boston Globe - “The case for a tech Shabbat in a too-connected world” — PDF of article
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The Globe And Mail - "Are we addicted to our screens?"
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CNN.com - “The full history of women’s leadership hasn’t been told”
Chapter in The Good Fight - “Getting To 50/50” (Released Nov 2017)
Inclusion in Genius:100 Visions of the Future by The Albert Einstein Foundation (To be published)
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LinkedIn - “30,000 Days"
LinkedIn - “The Sublime Space Between Here & There: Business Travel in the 21st Century”
LinkedIn - “Let’s Talk About Getting to 50/50”
LinkedIn - “Can Cultivating Character Restore Us to Sanity?"
CNET - “Celebrating 20 Years of Tech”
Harvard Business Review - “Tech’s Best Feature: The Off Switch”
Harvard Business Review - “How the Internet is Shaping Our “Global Brain”
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Tiffany's Blog - "Being Thankful Instead of Wantful"
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Tiffany's Blog - "Everything You Need to Enjoy One Tech-Free Day a Week"