Remember Madonna's 1992 Coffee-Table, Sex?

I'm waiting for David Brooks to drop something like that...

Last we heard, he was championing the pleasures of climbing the SecondMountain of your monied career in middle-age, enjoying all the youthful pursuits you might have missed out in mastering your profession the first go-around.  (=Boomer trope)

Now, he gives us this:

David Brooks @nytdavidbrooks

 There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy  family, organization or nation: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel valued, heard and understood. On October 24, I will be publishing a new book, “How to Know a Person,” * on how to master this skill. 10:44 AM · Jul 14, 2023 · 6,384  Views

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*  Friends, can you imagine how the glossy pages will look jump out at dinner parties when David Brooks inks a deal for the photographic, black-and-white picture book version of this concept he's been pushing in his past publicized works?

"How to Know A Person", by David Brooks, who has gazed into many a person's soul, national leaders, and told us what he saw there...  a regular PeopleWhisperer, he is.  Communicating all good things for good people interested in living the good life our good natures intended...

Yeah, I'm thinking $120 a pop, per book.  Madonna got $50 herself, and that was back in 1992.

"Truly, Madly, Deeply do"...