January 6th, 2022

= "the locus of shared attention in a group of people" (usually in the context of a single conversation, though it doesn't have to be)

I've talked with Eric Chisholm about the concept of being a "Middle Manager" in the sense of "managing the middle" where "the middle" is a phrase used to refer to something like

(the emphasis in "Middle Manager" here is different from the usual usage—usually it's on MAN, here it's on MID)