{"podcast":{"title":"The Zack Arnold Podcast","slug":"the-zack-arnold-podcast-1048782","podcast_index_feed_id":1048782,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/3d41cbb8-d093-4c61-aaac-99f8b3db1daf","website_url":"https://zackarnold.com/podcast","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2025/5/1/13/e7f6f2d3-a002-4461-98ca-5a5a30213314_743-2efe8661c570_opt_podcast_artwork-1400x1400.jpg","author":"Zack Arnold","episode_count":582,"summary":"If you want to make things that matter, I want to help you. And if you've built your entire career around your creativity, you too may be asking: Is there a future for us? Or is it game over? I don't know what the future holds, but I do promise few are more dedicated to helping us find the answers than I am.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T04:17:20.700032+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-zack-arnold-podcast-1048782"},"episode":{"title":"When boundaries aren't enough to keep you from picking up your phone, you might need this.","slug":"when-boundaries-aren-t-enough-to-keep-you-from-picking-up-your-phone-you-might-need-this","published_at":"2025-12-08T14:00:55+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-zack-arnold-podcast-1048782/when-boundaries-aren-t-enough-to-keep-you-from-picking-up-your-phone-you-might-need-this","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-zack-arnold-podcast-1048782","url":"https://zackarnold.com/podcast","audio_url":"https://audio2.redcircle.com/episodes/9c7b02c8-b6e4-4c9c-9d90-67c63f6aa1a4/stream.mp3","summary":"This mini-episode taken from my latest article in the Digital Essentialism Series on Substack pulls back the curtain on the likes, comments, and compulsive urge to reach for your damn phone 205 times a day, all to uncover a deeper question: What might you be avoiding with your attention? From digital essentialism to deep work rituals, from messy garages to meaning, we dig into why we avoid the blank page, why we panic when life pauses, and why being “CrAAAAAAAAAAzy busy!!!!!” keeps us from confronting purpose, values, and meaningful goals. If you can only call something a distraction when you know what it’s distracting you from — do you really know? If you enjoyed this article and you don't want to miss my future essays, my actionable insights, and my soapbox rants about navigating the world as analog humans in today's digital hellscape, make sure to subscribe at zackarnold.com/substack . wdq","meta_description":"This mini-episode taken from my latest article in the Digital Essentialism Series on Substack pulls back the curtain on the likes, comments, and compulsiv…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":639,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-zack-arnold-podcast-1048782/episodes/when-boundaries-aren-t-enough-to-keep-you-from-picking-up-your-phone-you-might-need-this/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-zack-arnold-podcast-1048782/when-boundaries-aren-t-enough-to-keep-you-from-picking-up-your-phone-you-might-need-this.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}