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As John Dewey wrote a century ago, “It seems almost incredible to us, for example, that things which we know very well, could have escaped recognition in past ages. We incline to account for it by attributing congenital stupidity to our forerunners and by assuming superior native intelligence on our own part. But the explanation is that their modes of life did not call for attention to such facts, but held their minds riveted to other things.”
Breaking Bread With the Dead
Alan Jacobs
These tech advances are sold as morally superior because they purport to rise above human bias, even though they could not exist without data produced through histories of exclusion and discrimination.
Race After Technology
Benjamin, Ruha
TRY THIS: Counting Self-JudgmentsMark out 15 minutes in the course of an ordinary day for this exercise. Choose a time when your mind might wander, maybe while you're driving a car or eating a meal alone. Say to yourself, "Over the next 15 minutes, I'll check every minute or so to see if I'm having a self-critical thought." If you have an electronic device that beeps, you can program it to ring every minute. Don't worry about remembering the content of your thoughts. Make a mental tally, perhaps counting on your fingers, of how many times you criticize yourself.
The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion
Christopher K. Germer and Sharon Salzberg
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