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Like I said, this all happens automatically but what’s really cool is that you can take conscious control of the process:
• By intentionally narrowing your visual field, you can increase alertness.
• By intentionally expanding your visual field, you can increase relaxation.
How and Why I Use Vision as a Productivity Tool
Charlotte Grysolle
I call “the New Jim Code”: the employment of new technologies that reflect and reproduce existing inequities but that are promoted and perceived as more objective or progressive than the discriminatory systems of a previous era.8 Like other kinds of codes that we think of as neutral, “normal” names have power by virtue of their perceived neutrality. They trigger stories about what kind of person is behind the name – their personality and potential, where they come from but also where they should go.
Race After Technology
Benjamin, Ruha
Letting thoughts come and go without engaging with them or falling under their spell allows us to experience ourselves as the awareness within which the thoughts are appearing, the awareness that is deciding to let the thoughts go.
Can't Stop Thinking
Colier, Nancy
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