Mike. Meditation, Design and Freedom

Mike grew up in the American mid-west, and and went on to study design as a practice of fine art. He discovered meditation in his 20's and found that it opened a profound door for him to understand his depression, sense of self, and the workings of his mind. In this conversation Joana and Mike discuss how this inner work seeps into his professional life of design, product development and market research. Mike talks about his work designing the female health app Clue, as well as his involvement with a healthcare start-up in Pakistan called Doctory. For more information check out Mike's current work at Das Dach, or on his medium linked in the episode notes.

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Being Underwater is a project about inner life in the digital age. Hosted by social entrepreneur and anthropologist Joana Breidenbach, this series of interviews tries to uncover the language we use to describe our inner worlds, as well as the tools or practices that help us decipher them. These conversations are important to engage in at any time, however with the onset of the digital age, they present a new urgency. As machines and algorithms threaten to know and understand us better than we do ourselves, we are faced with an evolutionary pressure to expand our consciousness and comprehend greater amounts of complexity. We must understand who we are, and what it is that we want, in order to define our relationship with technology, rather than allowing technology to define us. The project was conceived by Joana Breidenbach and edited by Siena Powers. Angus Sewell McCann composed the main theme music, and Vincent Augustus mixed the second theme. All visuals were created by Florentin Aisslinger.