FORGOTTEN IDENTITY
He was quiet for a moment with the specific quality of someone whose thinking had just shifted.
"That's a more significant book than the first one," he said.
"I think so," I said. "Which makes it harder."
"What makes it hard?" he asked, which was the practical question and the one I needed.
"The scale of it," I said. "The first book was about a practice I'd lived. This one is about systems I've observed from a position of significant advantage, which means I need to be constantly vigilant about the gap between what I've observed and what I've understood, and about the places where my understanding is limited by my position within the system I'm describing."
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