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Meet Brooke Taylor

Name: Meet Brooke Taylor
Uploaded: 2019-09-02T22:13:53+00:00
Duration: 1 min
Channel: Jessica Hickman
Description: Brooke Taylor grew up in 1990s Palo Alto during the tech boom, where the culture told her she could build anything if she imagined it. The problem: that…

2 Sept 2019 · 1 min

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Brooke Taylor grew up in 1990s Palo Alto during the tech boom, where the culture told her she could build anything if she imagined it. The problem: that ethos was aggressively masculine, pushing her to suppress her femininity in favor of doing and making. She explores the tension between that maker mentality and a more receptive, feminine approach to life.

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So it's quite a story. I grew up in Silicon Valley, so that's Palo Alto, California, Los Altos, California, and I grew up there in the '90s, so around the time when all these big companies were kind of emerging. And there was this ethos in the community around the fact that if you can imagine it, you can build it. So there was a lot of emphasis on achievement, a lot of emphasis on creation, hyper-masculinity in terms of kind of going out and making things happen. And while that was really inspiring and a really kind of cool thing to grow up around, I think some of the messaging that I got was very much around suspending my kind of femininity. And as we know, there's kind of a masculine approach whereby you can kind of go out and make some things happen, and the feminine approach is much more kind of in a receptive, attracting