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"How does that make you feel?"
I get asked this a lot in therapy. Plenty of life events, big and small, have triggered this question. Three weeks ago, it was the fact that I had to ask my therapist for her consent because I was wearing the Amazon Bee Frontier during our session.
That first week, I didn't really have an answer. A lot had changed since I first tested Bee, an always-recording AI wearable, early last year. The ele …