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Who Is This System Actually Built For? | Camilla Halford (opens the original)
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She was eight years old, handed back a test covered in corrections, and told that her dyslexia was her reason to be better than everyone else, because she would have to work harder for it. She didn't have the words for why that felt wrong until years later. In this clip from Connected Conversations, Camilla Halford, founder of Artega and co-founder of The Homing Call, traces a line from that classroom to the question she now asks of everything: who is this system actually built for? Her argument
Loneliness Isn't a Feeling. It's a Design Choice | Camilla Halford (opens the original)
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What if loneliness isn't something you feel, but something that was built? In this episode of Connected Conversations, Elena Petrova sits down with Camilla Halford, founder of Artega and co-founder of The Homing Call, who makes the case that isolation is a design outcome. It is built into our housing, our payment systems, and the shape of our working week. And because it was designed, it can be redesigned. Camilla's test for any system you live inside is a single question: is this built to serve
Belonging Is a Two-Way Street: What a City Inclusion Officer Learned Building It (opens the original)
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What if belonging isn't only something you feel when you walk into a room, but something you help build for the people who walk in after you? In this episode of Connected Conversations, Elena Petrova sits down with Claudia Menendez, an equity and inclusion officer for the City of Fort Collins, whose work comes down to a single thing: making people feel understood, in their own language, in their own community. Claudia has lived on every side of belonging, as the visible outsider in northern Ugan
They Built It for Romance. People Chose Friendship | Kyle Venn (opens the original)
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When Yik Yak matched thousands of students for a three-week experiment, the team expected almost everyone to want romance. What people actually reached for says something about all of us.In this clip from Connected Conversations, Kyle Venn, CEO of Yik Yak, walks Elena Petrova through a friendship-and-dating matching feature the team ran across a platform of about two million students. The part people used most was not the romantic match. It was the search for friends. One group matched on a shar
Can Anonymity Actually Build Belonging? | Kyle Venn, CEO of Yik Yak (opens the original)
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When no one knows your name, do you tell the truth, or do you show your worst? In this episode of Connected Conversations, Elena Petrova sits down with Kyle Venn, CEO of Yik Yak, for a serious look at what an anonymous-by-design platform can teach the rest of us about belonging, trust, and the cost of being seen. This is not a founder profile. It is an honest conversation that includes the platform's difficult history and the campus bans it is still working against, alongside what a group of str
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