Baratunde’s Tech Origins (with Belinda Yvonne Thurston)

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Society & Culture, News, Technology

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Technology and its promise of a better world is a part of Baratunde’s DNA. In this episode, Baratunde reminisces with his older sister, Belinda, about their upbringing in Washington DC in the 1980s. They discuss their mother’s influence on his earliest experiences with tech that would someday come to shape this very podcast.

Guest: Belinda Thurston

Bio: Yogini, tai chi player, Buddhist, African-Japanese American, journalist, speaker, motivator, number one sister.

Online: Just B Yoga website

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