In a sense, the decline of book reviews, like the decline of newspapers themselves, is a story about disaggregation.

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DM Related to many of our conversations, I (divergently) continue to consider optimally pragmatic means to introduce, instruct, facilitate and sustain UII™ (Ubiquitous Integrated Inquiry™) to adolescents and adults who possess applicable motivations. This may be integrated with, or even central to 4Chairs.Life communities, and have relevance to prior post regarding the pursuit of eudaimonia. I foresee both non-trivial challenges as well as vast opportunities and benefits. As

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The Interview Excerpt: "That talk was an interesting way for me to realize that maybe I had equated kindness and niceness in too easy of a way. Disconnect those, and it gets to be a real lifelong challenge. Now what I think is that kindness has so much to do with your ability to be in a moment without a whole lot of monkey mind going on. Because then you’re more likely to be able to posit what could be helpful in that situation. ... Well, I want to push back on your framing,

DM What are your perspectives regarding my recently posted opinion within The New York Times? This piece articulates something genuinely important, though I think it stops short of the deeper diagnosis your Pantakinesis framework would offer. What the article gets right: The historical genealogy is valuable —tracing how Cattell's "span" metrics, Mackworth's vigilance studies, and Broadbent's valve-and-tube diagrams progressively mechanized attention into something measurable,

DM I've left too much unsaid, or perhaps unresolved, in our prior conversations regarding "Fitness Beats Truth" (F>T) theory/paradigm (Hoffman, et al) in comparison with my "Fitness Equals Truth™" (F=T™) hypothesis. Let me begin to expand with these precipitative thoughts: 1) Both should be considered upon the human version of The Universal Holophren™ 2) F>T reflects historic-to-present, evolutionary application of the intelligences so as to optimally assure sustainable exist

The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Battle for Your Attention Is Built on a Lie Related Paper Excerpt: " True attention cannot be measured by a machine. The fullness of our authentic human attention, shared with others, is the power with which we make the world. It’s worth fighting for."

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