Kevinpelrine

“We ride rather than drive the innovation wave. Technology will find its inventors, rather than vice versa.”
― Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

“As Margaret Atwood writes, “Better never means better for everyone … It always means worse, for some.”
― Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

“when we identify which people to control, help, change, or emulate as “geniuses,” methods of classification change those who [sic] scientists set out to study.”
― Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

“Graphic designer Natasha Jen puts it bluntly in her talk “Design Thinking is Bullsh*t,” urging design practitioners to avoid the jargon and buzzwords associated with their field, to engage in more self-criticism, to base their ideas on evidence, and to stop assuming that their five-step process is needed for any and every thing.”
― Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code