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Presence Architecture™
Presence as something a room, a schedule and a practice can be built to support — rather than a personal virtue.
14 chapters · 123,442 words · Narrated · Still being written
Asking people to be more present is close to useless when everything around them is arranged to prevent it. Presence has architecture: the length of a meeting, what happens in the ten minutes before it, whether there is anywhere to put a strong feeling, whether the calendar leaves any interval in which a person could arrive anywhere at all.
This volume is about designing those conditions — for a team, a session, a home, a day — and about the small number of personal practices that hold up once the conditions are right.
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How this book was made. Many volumes in this house were written with machine assistance. That is the author's declared working method, not a thing found out later, and the practice is itself a published paper with a DOI — Externalized Cognition: A Developmental Theory of Human–AI Co-Creation. The argument, the judgement and the name on the cover are the author's.