Manoush Zomorodi
NPR TED Radio Hour host | Author of Bored and Brilliant, digital wellness pioneer
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Manoush Zomorodi is a journalist and host of NPR's TED Radio Hour, previously the creator and host of WNYC's Note to Self podcast. Her book 'Bored and Brilliant' challenged listeners to rethink their relationship with technology and sparked a movement around digital wellness.
She has reached millions exploring how technology reshapes creativity, attention, and human connection. With 3 talks at major events, she speaks on boredom and creativity, digital wellness, and the future of attention in a distracted world.
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A stock market for social justice
On this episode of ZigZag, host Manoush Zomorodi is joined by Eric Ries, who went from writing Silicon Valley's bible to building a stock market for social justice. Together, they examine why quarterly earnings reports cause anti-social behavior and how a new stock exchange in the US might present a systemic solution. As Eric says, this "will serve as inspiration to a new generation of civic entrepreneurs who will say: We don't have to take the institutions of our society as a given. We could try to build new and better ones." ZigZag, the business show about being human, is now a member of the TED family of podcasts. Listen or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Manoush Zomorodi at TEDNext 2025
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Manoush Zomorodi at TEDNext 2025
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