Nisrine Bnouhanna’s journal

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Personal notes on technology, art, ambition, and the ephemeral interests in between.

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Feb04

Our collective illusions

A couple of weeks ago, I came across a YouTube Video by the channel Big Think titled "Collective Illusions": Why false consensus in society is so dangerous | Todd Rose introducing the concept of collective illusions. A concept I have never heard of before.

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Jul23

Female Tech Entrepreneurs

We have all been watching the latest Disney plus TV show The dropout which portrays the rise and fall of the young female entrepreneur Elisabeth Holms. The events of this tragic tale are known and have been discussed relentlessly in various media outlets; however, one aspect that the TV show brings forward on many occasions is the byproduct such a story has on female entrepreneurship.

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Apr25

My top 10 YouTube channels

Everyone who knows me is probably acquainted with my religious dedication to watching the latest videos from my favourite YouTube channels. I obviously watch all kinds of YouTube videos when I've got free time, but even when busy or on holiday I will always take time for the latest uploads from my favourite YouTube channels. I refer to this time humorously as "my weekly homework".

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Apr03

"Why do ambitious women have flat heads?" by Steve Shirley

It was the title of Dame Stephanie Shirley's 2015 Ted Talk. I watched it for the first time when I was about to begin high school to obtain a baccalaureate degree in science and mathematics. In her talk, she shared the gender inequalities and discrimination she faced in the sixties as a software engineer woman, which motivated her to start her own software company that predominantly hired women. It was Dame Shirley's talk that opened my eyes to what I was getting myself into.

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