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LAOP 2019 · No. 10
Scott Lacy
Whatever problem you're solving for, you cannot do it alone. We need the dynamism of difference.
Scott Lacy
Scott Lacy, an anthropologist at Fairfield University, remembered envying a classmate's 64-pack of crayons and why more colors mattered. He drew a line between performative diversity, the checkbox kind, and cognitive diversity, people who actually think differently and make us uncomfortable. A hyperconnected world, he argued, is good for connection and bad for diversity. And he explained why letting go of standardization is so hard: each release feels like a small death, and we are wired to resist it.
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His story starts where reinvention did: a family that left everything behind for a new country and refused to call it loss. Cuban Roots →
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