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John, love your comments. We often ask if the learner is motivated. That is important but the real deep question is the one you raised.. "When is Enough Enough". I find that I rarely finish a 5 episode of Master Class - not because it is boring - but I have ENOUGH. We also need a "LATER" button to press - to reflect a desire to be nudged back to the content WHEN it is ideal. Smiles, Elliott

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Very thought provoking, as has always been your forte, Elliott. I find myself wondering if we are approaching the point where each of us will have to learn how much we want/need to learn each time we set out to. For me, the limits of traditional search often created a natural stopping point, or at least an obvious point of diminishing returns. Now I find I have to remind myself "enough, at least for now."

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Delightful and thought-provoking. I'm not positive that replicating the human-to-human search is the best approach, but I love the call to experiment. Thank you for posting, Elliott!

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I love this! I am a huge fan of “search” but the onus is on me in terms of how I phrase my questions. Better questions yield better answers! If I don’t get the results I am looking for, I often need to rephrase my query until I do. I would love it if the search engine could say - “let’s dig deeper into this” and explore further details. Not sure I’m ready for my answer in a poem yet, though. :)

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