the 12 Thesis of Attention
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“This one comes from this book called the 12 Thesis of Attention that actually the people who started the school helped write.”
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The book appears in a Hard Fork episode where a guest or host introduces broader ways of studying attention and describes the book as a kind of school for that exploration. The episode frames the work as prompting curiosity and as a source for exercises related to attention, suggesting its practical or pedagogical use in discussions about attention.
In the episode segment, the speaker connects the book’s ideas to earlier points they had already shared with listeners and signals a shift toward hands-on activities: “now we're going to do some exercises.” That placement in Hard Fork’s conversation explains why the title resurfaces in this podcast context, tied to moments when hosts move from theory into practice on the topic of attention.
The host mentions 'the 12 Thesis of Attention' as a source for exercises used in an attention lab at a unique school. This book is referenced to illustrate the innovative approaches to studying attention through practical exercises.
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Fastest path back to the source: the strongest indexed mention lands at 52:55 in the episode where we captured it.
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Which episode mentioned the 12 Thesis of Attention?
Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School on Hard Fork is one of the clearest indexed episodes that mentioned the 12 Thesis of Attention. The first indexed transcript timestamp lands at 52:55.
Which podcast mentioned the 12 Thesis of Attention?
Hard Fork is the main indexed podcast currently tied to the 12 Thesis of Attention.
Who mentioned the 12 Thesis of Attention on podcasts?
PodcastMentions ties the 12 Thesis of Attention to Hard Fork, but the underlying mentions do not yet expose stable guest names for every episode.
Why do podcast guests bring up the 12 Thesis of Attention?
The host mentions 'the 12 Thesis of Attention' as a source for exercises used in an attention lab at a unique school. This book is referenced to illustrate the innovative approaches to studying attention through practical exercises. It most often appears in conversations about attention school experience.
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“f introduced the ideas that I've already exposed to you, that like, we think of attention in this really singular way. And this is a school for studying attention in broader ways and getting curious about it. And now we're going to do some exercises. This is how all the attention labs are structured. We're going to do some exercise. that start in pairwork. And then we're going to discuss them as a group. And then later, we're going to do another exercise where we break up into bigger groups. And this is going to take almost like two hours collectively to do the exercises and talk about. And what are these exercises? Great question. So they print the exercises on”