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Chad Dickerson, formerly an executive at Yahoo and later CTO/CEO of Etsy, in a powerful piece shares his story and elaborates why flat data in online databases doesn’t truly define us — something i have argued about in the past. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise when I nod my head in agreement when I read:

Maybe if we all gave each other the space to be complex people — not reduced to public perception, our professional bios, our LinkedIn profiles, others’ narratives of who we are — we might understand each other better and give ourselves the room to be messy but wondrous human beings

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