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Sep 17Liked by Dr Surekha Davies

Woah - loving the synchronicity here. I’m currently reading both Renaissance Ethnography and Babel.

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Wow - too cool! Hope you're enjoying Renaissance Ethnography. Compelled to add that since Humans is for a general audience whereas Renaissance Ethnography was the book of my PhD dissertation, Humans goes down fewer rabbit-holes to the centre of the earth and contains *far* more jokes! :-)

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Sep 17Liked by Dr Surekha Davies

Already have it on pre-order! Very looking forward to it. (Also loving the rabbit holes in Renaissance Ethnography. Your writing is very compelling.)

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OMG thank you all round! I worked hard to make Renaissance Ethnography something people could read without wanting to poke forks in their eyes. And I spent *so much more time* working on making Humans beautiful and exciting to read. Fingers crossed that the effort has worked. :-)

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Sep 17Liked by Dr Surekha Davies

Haha definitely not reaching for a fork! My struggle is to not copy every sentence into my notebook. I’ll be doubling the weight in book darts before I’m through.

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Delighted to hear it!

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This is awesome! I remember exactly where we were when we had this conversation and love love love how you've created a pro version of the concept that is about to change my work flow. "This errand comes with music/ends in a treat" is going to be my new mantra.

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Thrilled to be able to gift to you what I made with your gift of words! :-)

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LOVE. Disambiguate feels like a Seinfeld episode; YTML is thanks to Dr. Crane!

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Thanks - and yes, Dr. Crane and Daphne's mother are the source of Daphne's YTML meltdown!

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