Elise Hu

We dig into why dumb questions are actually quite smart and why reigniting curiosity, restoring presence and breaking free from our phones is more important now than ever.

That's all coming up right after a short break from our sponsors.

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My conversation with Naeba is coming up right after a short break.

Naima, congratulations on your talk.

Thank you so much, Elise.

Really appreciate it.

So for folks who don't know you, tell us just a little bit about yourself.

Why do you call them dumb questions?

Because it occurs to me that a lot of the questions that you ask that then become the fruits of conversation or more reporting are not dumb at all.

They're just a starting point, it sounds like.

Yeah, absolutely.

On to the talk.

You started it with a story of these two 11-year-olds who you had on your podcast and asked them, how does time with people on screens feel different than time with people in real life?

Why was their answer surprising to you?

That's true.

Attention is such a finite resource.

And people are competing for it constantly.

And all the apps and industries are competing for ours.

And it makes even time in real life that sort of scarce resource.