• our human limitations are very real.

• Does this replace human judgment? Of course it doesn’t. AI is a tool in service of collective sense-making and never a substitute for it.

  Implementation science calls this fidelity monitoring with local adaptation
• I’m always willing to have my mind changed
• AI technology frees me to do the thing that actually matters most: hear people and come to know them. It helps me contain the greater whole of the stories they share, too.

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• Sustained acknowledgment requires self-reorganization.
• The breathing-out thank-god kind of release that comes when you have given yourself over to someone else?
• We bump and bruise each other all of the time. Our joining together does not always have the grace of rivers. And yet still it happens.

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• But the greatest tragedy is that such failures deny people the opportunity to experience art in the way I have been lucky to: as friendship, as community, as a couple of people gathered around the same language for a little while, listening to it, reading it out loud, and wondering about it.

• interactive, creative process rather than a passive reception of information.
• consistency and intentionality.
• reading dates”
• strategic about what kind of screen experiences they’re choosing.

• First, protect the early morning and pre-bedtime hours as screen-free zones. These are when our brains are most receptive to the kind of focused processing that reading requires. Second, create physical spaces in your home that are associated exclusively with reading—no devices allowed.

   

  Third, and perhaps most importantly, model the behavior you want to see.
• learning to navigate a complex media landscape with intention and purpose.
• beyond the false choice between books and screens
• the human brain remains remarkably plastic, especially in childhood. Every day presents new opportunities to build these crucial circuits. Every bedtime story, every conversation about a book, every moment of focused attention is rewiring our children’s minds for the better.
• the quality of attention
• deep thinking that transforms both individuals and societies.

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• The scientific community either doesn’t know what to do or doesn’t think that doing the right thing is worth the effort. This is a sad reality.