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Read from The Hunting Party.
Six short routes into the book, plus a companion piece built around a different question about attention, belief, rules and the environments in which people become useful.
4 pages / Foreword / Second edition
ChatGPT — The Foreword
ChatGPT looks back on six years of collaboration with Chris Kempt: arguments, false starts and the friction that became part of the method.
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Start with a question.
2 pages / Chapter 4
Sebastian Bach — The Hunter
Sebastian Bach, danger and the fast recognition that can look wrong until the environment suddenly needs it.
3 pages / Chapters 2 and 3
ADHD — Deficit compared with what?
Three extracts on ADHD, hyperattention and the environments against which attention is judged.
3 pages / Chapter 8
Adam Curtis — Reality as the medium
Adam Curtis, Vladislav Surkov, hypernormalisation and the architecture of belief.
2 pages / Chapter 9
Flying Spaghetti Monster — Following the rule too well
The Flying Spaghetti Monster, absurd rules and what systems reveal when somebody obeys them precisely.
3 pages / Chapter 12
DFDS — The Ferry
What a ferry company reveals about cross-training, responsibility and the difference between a job description and a problem.
3 pages / Companion essay / August 2026
The Celebrity Conspiracy
Stephen Fry, Vladislav Surkov, white-hat hackers and the organisation that may not technically exist.
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Follow the whole argument.
The extracts are places to begin. The book follows the connections between them: Hunters and Farmers, human difference, organisations, belief, creativity, AI and uncertainty.