the middle

created 2022-01-06 · edited 2022-01-06 · open in Roam

"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)
eg one might say "I want to put something into the middle" as in "share it for consideration"

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- = "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)