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On being a technologist - Tender Buttons by Rebecca Mqamelo

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Notes from sabbatical

I have been thinking lately about what it means to be a technologist, for two reasons. The first is that I spent the last few years disproportionately surrounded by people who identify as technologists and have a penchant for being meta about the whole business – curators of book clubs, zines, bi-weekly calls, retreats in the woods and such, all philosophizing on the deeper implications of this way of life. The second is that two months into my sabbatical, I’ve found myself feeling unusually negative about being a technologist. I went from designing crypto-enabled local currency systems to…

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