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It took weeks to get this page written. And as the product evolved, the page evolved alongside it. Marketing was always there, ensuring that we still had a strong answer to “Why We Made It” even as engineering and product management tweaked what we were making.
Purposeful practice is focused.
Peak
Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
From their arrival around 1619, African people had illegally
resisted legal slavery. They had thus been stamped from the beginning as criminals. In all of the fifty suspected or actual slave revolts era, resisting
reported in newspapers during the American colonial Africans were nearly always cast as violent criminals, not people reacting to enslavers' regular brutality, or pressing for the most basic human
desire: freedom.
Stamped From the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi
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