{"id":769,"date":"2005-08-09T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=769"},"modified":"2005-08-09T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T05:00:00","slug":"human-history-as-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/human-history-as-a-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Human history as a tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned something at OSonOS which applies to unconferencing.  Blogging DURING a conference is not good unconferencing behaviour.  Unconferencing dialogue requires attention and you can&#8217;t do that while you are writing.  <\/p>\n<p>And so, my thoughts about OSonOS will trickle out here in the next little while.  I start with this one, from Masud Sheik.<\/p>\n<p>Masud said something in the closing circle that sent me thinking&#8230;he began his comments by saying &#8220;most of us are dead&#8221; by which I think he meant most of the people who have been alive in human history.<\/p>\n<p>This immediately made a picture of a tree come to mind, with dead heart wood supporting the thin living layer of bark.  Most of the bulk of a tree is dead, but the living skin is what ensures the future.  Slice a thick circle of bark around the circumference of the tree and it will die, despite 1000 years of growth.<\/p>\n<p>Humanity is like that and whether Masud meant this or not, it was a powerful image for me about how important it is to do good work in the world.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned something at OSonOS which applies to unconferencing. Blogging DURING a conference is not good unconferencing behaviour. Unconferencing dialogue requires attention and you can&#8217;t do that while you are writing. And so, my thoughts about OSonOS will trickle out here in the next little while. I start with this one, from Masud Sheik. Masud said something in the closing circle that sent me thinking&#8230;he began his comments by saying &#8220;most of us are dead&#8221; by which I think he meant most of the people who have been alive in human history. This immediately made a picture of a tree &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-cp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}