FLAME with Brad Hook
Take Control of Your Digital Life — Taíno Bendz
Engineer, yoga teacher and father Taíno Bendz founded Phone Free Day for a simple reason: he wanted his kids to inherit adults who look up. His research-backed case for digital intentionality.
Taíno isn't anti-technology — he's an engineer. His argument is precision: digital tools should be used on purpose, and the research he has conducted shows how far most of us have drifted from that. His non-profit Phone Free Day has spread across countries as a yearly pattern-interrupt.
Having lived in Bolivia, the US, Ireland, Zimbabwe and New Zealand before settling in Sweden, Taíno brings global perspective to a universal problem. We cover the habits that actually reduce screen pull, designing family digital culture, and what returns when attention does. Practical, warm and refreshingly guilt-free.
In this episode
- Digital intentionality — use on purpose or be used
- What the research says about our drift
- Phone Free Day as a pattern-interrupt
- Designing family digital culture
- What returns when attention does
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