About this episode
The Liat Show is rebuilding our world through storytelling, powered by readers. To receive new posts first and support my work, join as a free or paid subscriber and stay ahead of the next chapter before the door closes.Current Time.What is The Liat Show?The Liat Show is my story, my journey through time. It is about digging into where I come from, my culture, my family, and my roots. That means diving into the history of places, people, and ideas. It is also about where we are now and the present we all share. It is about imagining the future, the world we want to live in, and finding ways to build it.The Liat Show is my life, shared across various platforms. It is my unique perspective on the world and how its pieces connect. I am still crafting these elements, so they are not all connected yet, but this is only the beginning. The tools to bring everything together do not fully exist yet, but we have enough to start while tech companies develop the rest.In my imagination, this show begins every workday with a 13-minute session you can watch on the way to work or school or while drinking your coffee as you settle into your day. Each session features a story about culture, history, music, food, entrepreneurship, or other topics and explores how they connect to today's reality. The last show before the weekend will include a game we will all play together.The morning session will be followed by a reading class in the digital world, practicing the Liat Portal Method for reading online. This session will focus on developing skills to read properly in a digital world where information is in motion and constantly shifts.In one of the previous podcasts, I wished all baby boomers in retirement, along with the silent generation and even those from the greatest generation, who know how to manage tablets or smartphones, to join these sessions. I still wish for that.After completing my bachelor’s degree, I gave private tutoring to seniors, teaching them how to use computers, especially Facebook, since it was the big hype and pretty much the only platform at the time.I treasure these times with the seniors, mainly because I met amazing people and students with whom I’m still in touch today. I love listening to their stories and learning from their wisdom, especially because they lived during the transition from the old world to the technological one we live in today.They still remember a world with no phones or TV, a world with no sanitation like toilets or houses without electricity. They remember that most international travel was by ship, and even though the first international flight happened in 1914, affordable and common air travel for the public really took off in the 1950s.They lived through technological developments as they were implemented, and they are the only ones who know what it’s like to live without t
