You Are Biased (Even if You Think You’re Not.)
Have you been on the Clubhouse app yet?
About a month ago, one of my closest friends texted me and told me that they were in a room with Joe Budden. I called them immediately, curious about what that meant in the age of COVID-19. And sure enough, when they answered my call from their computer, there was the voice of Joe Budden, on the increasingly popular Clubhouse app, responding to a comment my friend had made about something I can’t even recall now.
Shortly thereafter, this same friend sent me an invitation to join Clubhouse. I accepted with reluctance as I had no idea what I would find there. And what I found most likely lives on the wide and expansive spectrum of a digital anthropologist’s wildest dream…and worst nightmare. Because that’s just how life works. Clubhouse is another application that very naturally does what we, meaning our dominant society, pretends never to expect social platforms to do. It replicates the joys and greatest achievements of our society, but it also replicates our society's challenges and failings.
As someone who spends plentiful hours at my computer screen facilitating conversations and transformations at the intersection of design thinking and human equity with some of the largest tech companies, global organizations, and social justice communities in the world; with intention…
