Contemplation

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Welcome to the Leanpub Launch video for Contemplation: The Interior Forms of Epistemic Failure https://leanpub.com/contemplation by James Roy Dennis! 0:00 James Roy Dennis introduces himself and the origin story behind the book 1:36 Discovering structural problems in AI hiring and beginning the research journey 2:21 Turning inward: examining personal epistemic failures as part of the research 3:08 Ethics as orientation and restraint, and how institutions drift from their missions 4:39 The Big Lebowski as a metaphor for losing orientation to what truly matters 5:27 Inherited beliefs and unconscious stories we carry from childhood into adulthood 7:01 Carry failure versus carry success, and the structural distinction between knowledge and awareness 9:28 Why the book avoids self-help prescriptions in favor of recognition and awareness 11:02 The key distinction: knowledge can survive in memory while ceasing to function in judgment 12:38 Ghosts from the past—saying the right words without living them out in actual decisions About the Book Have you ever made the same painful mistake twice, even though you knew better? Have you ever wondered why a lesson you earned through experience seemed unavailable when you needed it most? Contemplation explores that question. It examines why hard-won understanding sometimes stops functioning—not because it was forgotten, but because something in the way we carry knowledge across time has failed. Rather than offering advice or self-help prescriptions, the book provides fifteen recognizable patterns that help readers see themselves with greater clarity. The goal is not judgment but recognition. Once these patterns become visible, they are difficult to mistake for something else. Whether you are a professional, leader, parent, student, researcher, or simply someone trying to understand your own decisions, Contemplation offers a vocabulary for examining the distance between what we know and what we are able to live. About the Author James Roy Dennis is an author, independent researcher, and founder of PortusSophia, LLC, a Maryland-based research and consulting organization. His work focuses on epistemology, governance, artificial intelligence, and the study of knowledge-bearing systems. As the architect of the PortusSophia™ framework, he explores how knowledge survives, degrades, and influences decision-making across organizations, institutions, and emerging technologies. His research has been published through SSRN and other public research platforms. Thank you for watching, please like and leave a comment, we'd love to hear from you! Please Subscribe and Follow! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/leanpub X: https://x.com/leanpub Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leanpub Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leanpub Create Your Own Leanpub Book! You can create your own book anytime here: https://leanpub.com/create/book Here's the tutorial showing how to write and publish a Leanpub book in your browser (it's free!): https://help.leanpub.com/en/articles/2932527-getting-started-writing-a-book-in-leanpub-s-web-browser-writing-mode If you're a Leanpub author and you'd like to submit your own Launch video for us to publish, or if you'd like to record a Launch video with Len, please go here: https://leanpub.com/launch. #books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #leanpub #writing #epistemicFailure #selfKnowledge #epistemology #cognitiveBias #carryFailure