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**Make Your Damn Bed**

@MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum – better your life.

Each episode is around 10 minutes and intended to encourage, motivate, and inspire you to get out of bed – so you can start making it!

Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

All content, including text, graphics, images and information, is for general information purposes only. This content is presented on an “as-is” basis.

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1678 || humane tech is out there Jan 24, 2026

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The six tenets of humane technology are:

Sensitive to Human Nature: Technology should work in harmony with human vulnerabilities and biases, rather than exploiting them to grab attention.
Minimize Harmful Consequences: Product teams must account for and minimize the negative, unintended, or downstream consequences of their technology.
Center on Values: Technology should be designed to support human values (such as truth, connection, and well-being) rather than simply maximizing for engagement metrics.
Create Shared Understanding: Technology should foster trust, truth, and the shared understanding necessary for functioning democracies, rather than creating fragmented realities.
Support Fairness & Justice: Systems should promote a more just world by actively reducing bias and integrating the voices of people who experience harm.
Help People Thrive: Products should be designed to empower users to act in alignment with their deeper, long-term intentions, rather than exploiting short-term impulses.

Visit the Humane Tech Website and check out their public discourse.

The Khan Academy offers free courses and today I sped through their lesson on "persuasive technology" and how we can push back against it, to reclaim what is ours.

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The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

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1677 || when the system is the problem Jan 23, 2026

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How do we fight the very system we’re stuck in?

If every road we end up on bottlenecks to the same hole they want us stuck in, should we even bother?

There’s a place for all of us in the systemic fight, and it’s a matter of filling needs that you can fill, as they arise.

Some of us will need to stay in the bottle, but we can keep flooding the neck of the bottle from the inside, and because it’s already showing signs of cracking - we should never let up until it does. But some people hate the damned bottle, and will find they are best used outside of the bottle, throwing rocks at the facade to show how fallible it is. Some of us will have escaped the bottle already and be creating new, more connected and expansive roads for when the bottle shatters and we all need a new path, and some of us will be stuck, in the bottom of the bottle, waiting for the glass shards to fall and bury them, or for someone outside to pull them. Find a place for yourself. Building new roads, or breaking the bottle neck that has been causing so much harm.

It’s impossible to see your own issues when you’re in them.

If you’re stuck in the abusive system you’re not likely to see how abusive it is until you’ve escaped it.

You have to back up to see the whole picture.

Your nose is on the wall, back up a few steps and you’ll see how big and broken the wall is.

When we see how other systems are working, it becomes clear all the ways ours isn’t.

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1676 || the other half of the battle Jan 22, 2026

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Knowing is half the battle, but what about the other half?

We'll never be free of all bias, perception, and susceptibility to manipulation.

It feels like we should be able to control what we understand, but unfortunately that's not the case.

As we learn consequences in real time, we have to be willing to recognize our personal vulnerabilities so we can avoid being exploited by persuasive technologies who don't have our best interest in mind.

The Khan Academy offers free courses and today I sped through their lesson on "persuasive technology" and how we can push back against it, to reclaim what is ours.

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1675 || how the funhouse mirror works Jan 21, 2026

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Social media + persuasive technologies exploit our brain's vulnerabilities to ensure we stay engaged with their apps.

Creating a sense of urgency,
Encouraging constant seeking,
Comparing ourselves to others,
Engaging with negative content,
Isolating us in bubbles.

To combat this, slow the fuck down.

The Khan Academy offers free courses and today I sped through their lesson on "persuasive technology" and how we can push back against it, to reclaim what is ours.

Read episode scripts on Julie's Medium Blog.

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1674 || the guilt gap: watching tv vs. scrolling social media Jan 20, 2026

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Weird how I can spend two hours on Instagram reels or tiktok and not feel bad about not cleaning my house, but when I sit to watch a movie? I am riddled with guilt and shame.

Slow content leaves room for thinking and autonomy. Fast-pased content led by algorithms, leave no room for independent thought or action.

The Khan Academy offers free courses and today I sped through their lesson on "persuasive technology" and how we can push back against it, to reclaim what is ours.

Read episode scripts on Julie's Medium Blog.

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1673 || the internet is a funhouse mirror Jan 19, 2026

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The data brokers found out we can't look away from a car crash, so they made all of our available content a series of car crashes. This has convinced a lot of us that the world is simply, ALL car crashes. It's not. They're prioritizing profits + growth at the expense of the whole.

"We are on a path to a technology environment where we are surrounded by powerful technology that’s competing to track, influence, and monetize us."

The Khan Academy offers free courses and today I sped through their lesson on "persuasive technology" and how we can push back against it, to reclaim what is ours.

Read episode scripts on Julie's Medium Blog.

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1672 || persuasive technology Jan 18, 2026

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The Khan Academy offers free courses and today I sped through their lesson on "persuasive technology" and how we can push back against it, to reclaim what is ours.

Read episode scripts on Julie's Medium Blog.

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1671 || attention economy Jan 17, 2026

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The Khan Academy offers free courses, today I speed through their lesson on "the attention economy" and how we can push back against it, to reclaim what is ours.

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1670 || what does machiavellian actually mean? Jan 16, 2026

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I've been using the term "machiavellian" for years. Recently, I looked it up. Today, I'm sharing what I found.

Machiavelli was a teacher of "evil". He believed virtues were a waste of time. He said successful founders and supporters of government must be violent murderers to sustain control. Fear is a more powerful motivator than fear, so he encouraged brute force and violence as a means to an end.

We can combat this type of thinking by encouraging empathy, connection, and morality.

Wikipedia's Page on Machiavelli.

The Forbes Article on Workplace Machiavellians

Quora's Responses to someone feeling more Machiavellian.

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1669 || when reality is up for debate Jan 15, 2026

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This isn't about disagreeing about policies or politics, anymore. We currently live in a world with a sizable minority of people are disagreeing about reality itself.

We cannot allow those who disagree with reality to create a new one.

What do we do when we're forced to tolerate people who support authoritarianism?

How does a pluralistic democracy deal with people who threaten the existence of such a thing?

We must set firm and clear boundaries against actions + movements that threaten the pluralistic democracy that keeps them safe, provide a viable off-ramp from authoritarianism and intolerance, and teach explicitly a "tolerance for ambiguity and difference".

Watch Cybel Canterel's Original Video on TikTok.

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