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This week’s highlight focuses on my thoughts around June 19th, fundamental tech shifts around work communication: email and social media. Had a conversation with a (black) mentor who explained how June 19th—originally celebrated from Texas—was days after slavery actually ended. I think this explanation goes further to show the genesis of privilege which still plagues us. Also, it’s interesting how diversity is an omnipresent value at the workplace. Could there be a deeper and practical exploration of ‘diversity’? Diversity workshops don’t seem to be it.

Earlier this week, hey.com teased its new product (that’s been in the works for 2 years) that could potentially revolutionize how we see email. While I’m on the waitlist for early access, their explainer video got me all excited on how it handles email. Already I can’t stand my gmail and icloud clients. This led me thinking: what ubiquitous product could really help with incremental invention/shift so bad that we barely recognize it? In my work domain: how could we work to lead a renewable energy shift unstoppable by any goliath?

This is the third week of aggressively capping my social media. Still, there’s a tiny bit itch to log in but definitely significantly less of an itch than it was 3 weeks ago. I’m finding that this suddenly clears a lot of mental fog and now I’m able to focus much better and longer. I see some direct effects of dramatically less social media consumption with the output of my professional, academic and (real) social spheres—viola! guess who made their first decent Ugali 😅. Before I started capping my social media, my primary source of info would be Twitter but now I use a mix of local and international news apps. However, Twitter is still the fastest way to get some data i.e Daily Corona virus cases.