Sam Harris’ Waking Up App, Reviewed
New online meditation course blows every other meditation app out of the water.
Neuroscientist, philosopher, and author Sam Harris has never been one to make excuses for himself. His long-awaited meditation course app Waking Up was in the pipeline for roughly four years, starting with the release of his 2014 book on meditation by the same name. On his podcast, which also formerly bore the name Waking Up (since rechristened Making Sense), he continually chastized himself for the app’s still uncompleted state until the thing finally saw the light of day in the fall of 2018.
It was well worth the wait. Not only is Waking Up a far superior meditation app to anything else out there, but it is without doubt the single most useful digital tool I have added to my life in recent times — and a much-needed antidote to so much of the anxiety-inducing digital brain poison out there.
Take a bow, Sam!
2018 was the year we reached Peak Mindfulness. The last couple of years have seen an absolute glut of books on mindfulness and the benefits of meditation, and throughout the year every other magazine seemed to feature stories on the health and productivity benefits of meditation as though it were a fad diet (as opposed to an ancient practice that has been around for at least 2,500 years).
