Andrew Dunn (he/they - also goes by Ava Rose) is a social entrepreneur, mentor and writer who cares about creating a thriving future based on care, connection, healing, and equity. This winter, he will be reflecting on his 5-year post-mortem journey of building a celebrated humane tech product (Siempo) and living into the inquiry:
What does society / life on Earth demand from the next generation of founders?
What awarenesses, capacities, experiences, values must we be nurturing our rising leaders with?
How can people find, learn, and integrate these without reproducing the same problems that we seek to transcend?
Andrew seeks to journey beyond the traditional startup post-mortem into the emotional aspects of bringing a transformational product into form, and his personal journey in that fire - spending as much time as he can learning about himself and the world, connecting with people and communities carrying different pieces of the puzzle that could inform how to steward new-to-the-world innovations in a time of transition in an omni-considerate way.
Reflections on the Incubator Experience
~ Writings ~
The Path of The Humane Technologist
What Makes a Humane Technologist?
It’s a critical question that deserves more attention if we want to make good on the promises of the movement. So far we have coherence around things like design principles (humane tech is sensitive to human nature, narrows the gap between the powerful and the marginalized, reduces hatred and greed, and so on).
But what about the people creating the technology?