Acknowledgments

No endeavor is accomplished in isolation, and this book is no exception. Words cannot express the level of indebtedness I feel to the many people who helped crystallize my thinking during this journey.

First and most importantly, I extend primary thanks to my wife Chris Koustourlis. In our 23 years together, she has always supported whatever excursion resulted from my latest cognitive whim. In the case of this book, it was allowing me the isolation I needed to thrash five years of research into some semblance of coherence. John Lennon essentially summed it up when he said, “There is a great woman behind every idiot.”

I had an excellent team of technical reviewers to keep me honest and future-proof my content: Det Ansinn, Karl ...

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