Resurrecting your low-tech childhood hobbies with Caleb Walker.
The Unobstructed Podcast: Episode 33
This episode of The Unobstructed Podcast is about rediscovering joy.
It feels like there’s this widespread expectation to be available all the time, and not just at work. I’ve noticed that when people text me, it feels like they’re awaiting an immediate response. Consciously or not, that’s how my brain seems to react to new texts, emails, and messages now. You know what I mean? It’s like there’s this persistent layer of urgency that’s growing more and more rabid the more digitally connected we are. And I do it, too.
This is a topic that friend of the pod, Caleb Walker, brought up recently. Specifically, he’s seeing an uptick in a trend called “kidulting,” where people are returning to hobbies they loved and found joy in as kids, but that they’ve left behind in adulthood.
Caleb surprised me with a few of the ways he’s making space for analog and low-tech joy. Music and mountain biking I’d expected, but some of the other things he’s getting into got my own wheels turning on how I can tap back into joy beyond digital. But the part of our conversation I loved most was talking about how social media skews self-worth. It took a very different turn from the somewhat normally discussed side-effects of comparison culture. Instead, we dug deeper into what we’re seeing this pattern do to the ways we look for affirmation (online and in real life).
We talk about all of this and more in the episode. You can listen via Substack and also on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music.
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