I have been working on a question all year which can basically be boiled down to: "what rehumanizes?"
For me, the context is tech, but of course, tech needs to learn from everywhere else in order to see its own deficits.
Taking as a given that we are all existing in broken, cumulatively damaging cultures, I really want to move beyond sitting in that grief and move toward us being able to notice and recognize and ultimately protect repair
Often, people respond very negatively toward any comment about individual psychology because it does not solve the problems at the structural level
I recognize this, but at the same time, I think something is lost when we attack every mention of individual psychology
There's a big divergence between what we talk about when I meet with people 1:1 versus what's talked about on social media here and I don't like that divergence
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