HeyJaredBeing Adah Parris
Unleashing the curiosity of my neurodivergent mind and its pattern-decoding abilities. Inspiring fresh thinking with the question, "what type of ancestor do you want to be?" Empowering personal growth, innovation, and societal change.
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What type of ancestor do you want to be? (opens the original)
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What type of ancestor do you want to be?On Saturday, I’ll open Day 2 of the Deeply Human Summit in Paris with a conversation around that question.I’ll be joined by Camila Lombana-Diaz, De Kai and François Taddei.Thank you to Iliana Grosse-Buening for the invitation, and for trusting me to guide the conversation.I keep coming back to one idea:We are not in a technology crisis.We are in a listening crisis.So I want to explore:What are we projecting onto AI?Whose voice is missing?What is actually a
Something stayed with me from a recent conversation... (opens the original)
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Something stayed with me from a recent conversation.Everyone in the room described a connection to nature.But almost nobody named it as ancestral knowledge.I thought about water.The fear and reverence of standing beside it.Closing my eyes.Remembering that my body is made of water too.That sensation is a form of knowing and intelligence.Then we talked about paradox.We are so often taught to choose.<br
Tomorrow I head to Dartmoor for Lessons in Listening with Land Art Collective. (opens the original)
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Tomorrow I head to Dartmoor for Lessons in Listening with Land Art Collective.I’m going as both facilitator and participant.Which feels particularly fitting for where I am right now.I’ve been in a listening era.Listening to the world around me.Listening to what is changing.Listening to what I’ve been saying for years, and noticing where those ideas are becoming more visible in the world.One of those ideas keeps returning:We are not
For the seventh consecutive year, I have been named on Computer Weekly's Most Influential Women in UK Tech longlist. (opens the original)
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For the seventh consecutive year, I have been named on Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Women in UK Tech longlist.Seven consecutive years.This year, more than 870 women were nominated, spanning technology, AI, digital, leadership, research, entrepreneurship and innovation.I find the consistency more interesting than the accolade itself.Because my relationship with technology has never been conventional.In 2020, I was listed as a storyteller, director and producer of L&D experiences.Today, I am
My fascination with maps was never really about geography. (opens the original)
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My fascination with maps was never really about geography.It’s about boundaries. The ones drawn as fact, which then become systems of power.This work began with a question about the name The Middle East.What’s in the middle?East of what?I kept coming back to the fact that the name itself defines an entire region in relation to somewhere else.Six years ago, I wrote a manifesto for women about the experience of being known through relationship to someone else.<br
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