Riz Vazir

Founder, Scroll By Choice: Enabling you to take control of your digital life

[Riz Vazir @riyaz_vazir]

@baxirahul We don’t know each other - but I enjoy your work. Your picture of the Saudades bungalow brought back high school memories - it was where I used to learn French. Thanks for sharing.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

Happiness is plummeting.

The world is more connected yet more disconnected than ever

I’ve got a theory on why….

We used to have more community. We traded church for Mr. Beast.

Sunday Sermons for Live Streams.

Don't you agree?

And here's what I think happens next....

A counterwave.

A fierce hunger for real-world connections.

Tech that connects us on a screen will pivot to push us offline.

And more physical experiences with no phones allowed.

When I was growing up, there was no smoking sections.

When our kids grow up, maybe they'll be no phones sections.

And apps that reward us for being less on it

Apps that have opening hours and closed hours. "Come back tomorrow".

Our human wiring is for tribes, not just Twitch.

We’re built for community centers, not just comment sections.

From a business perspective, if you can tap into this desire for community....

There are thousands of community business to be built. We've only scratched the surface.

The opportunity is endless.

And I think the more connected to community we enable people to be.

That's when happiness goes up instead of down.

[scrollbychoice @scrollbychoice]

Email volumes have gone up 30% since 2020 and the average person has nearly 200 unread emails a day. How are you learning to thrive alongside tech, vs. becoming burnt out?

[The Associated Press @AP]

YouTube is great at sending users videos that it thinks they'll like based on their interests. But new research shows that the site's powerful algorithms can also flood young users with violent and disturbing content. https://t.co/Oagq7C7ZFK

[Riz Vazir @riyaz_vazir]

@intentionally I built a series for Microsoft. Documented learning and process here https://t.co/O1djhnY1DX

[Riz Vazir @riyaz_vazir]

Excited to hear about the amazing #ChangingPlaces stories at #TEDxSeattle

[steve blank @sgblank]

It's the details of _how_ to innovate that often paralyzes corporate innovation

[Matthew Temple @MatthewTemple]

Thank you @KelloggSchool alumni, @Microsoft, @eliusive1 & @riyaz_vazir for hosting our Reinventing Your Career Workshop in Seattle.

[LeBron James @KingJames]

So dope!!! #Salute the homie who stepped in and spoke real to our young generation. We all need a word or 2 to help! https://t.co/hJ4BT611sw

[Shahed Amanullah @shahed]

I don't know who you are, but thank you for standing outside my son's Islamic school to let him know he is welcome in your America

[Rebecca Klein @rklein90]

The real reason there aren't enough teachers of color https://t.co/uuGnsQAHhC via @blackvoices

[Riz Vazir @riyaz_vazir]

Corporate diversity programs don't work, and a new study shows why https://t.co/9tMPyzOLrx

[CNN International @cnni]

China's "elevated bus" that glides over traffic completes first road test https://t.co/9ghFZ69tnS

[Riz Vazir @riyaz_vazir]

Moving From Lecture to Learning https://t.co/ssPzRDGvDA

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

"We don't have to make children learn, we just have to let them learn." @AlisonGopnik: https://t.co/3YeaQzrrsB

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Congrats Team ENTy & all the #ImagineCup teams. Inspired by your creativity & passion to change the world. https://t.co/Ho8P2xuoxf

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

People no longer take the time to learn unless it feels relevant, and it’s embedded in the work. https://t.co/JPPHIH1VMK

[Riz Vazir @riyaz_vazir]

Don’t Teach Grit. Embed It. https://t.co/pkqgYLBYNS

[Nick Ulivieri @ChiPhotoGuy]

It's just incredible up here right now. My memory card hates me...so many frames

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Kids learn more from fantasy than reality: studies suggest thinking about the impossible leads to deeper processing. https://t.co/3xEIqzLSqH