John R. Miles

Helplessness and all the other things that we think are just symptoms, we're treating them as independent epidemics.

However, I believe they're all interrelated.

What you and I are both talking about here

Speaking of the Patriots, I just have to digress here just for a second.

I was completely blown away that Bill Belichick didn't get into the Hall of Fame on the first ballot.

That to me was, wow, crazy, right?

Crazy, right?

Crazy.

That stuff absolutely does matter, doesn't it?

I live here in Tampa Bay, Florida.

And in St.

Petersburg, if anyone's ever been there, there's this great older hotel called the Vinoy that sits right on the water basin.

And I don't know, five or six years ago, they started to do the longest table here.

It probably goes close to a football field.

It's really long.

And what I have felt experiencing it is that the table doesn't work only because people feel welcome.

I think it works because it makes each person's presence relevant to the experience.

It's like mutual contribution that they're all having.

Did you find that to be the case when you looked at the Parisian example?

So one core difference between the Paris example and the St.