{"id":1005,"date":"2009-06-04T18:34:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T02:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2009-06-04T19:45:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T03:45:52","slug":"outside-the-echo-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2009\/06\/04\/outside-the-echo-chamber\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside the echo chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/56\/189282339_0a2f83b9fa_m_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/56\/189282339_0a2f83b9fa_m_d.jpg\" title=\"Yelling\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One thing that I like about pub culture is the tendency to end up talking with people you don&#8217;t know. Sometimes they&#8217;re drunk, sometimes they have very strong opinions. Occassionally, you end up with a memorable conversation that changes how you think.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be giving a short introduction to the first keynote speakers for <a href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\/\">Open Source Bridge<\/a> (for the morning of June 17), and was thinking about this when I came across a blog post about the <a href=\"http:\/\/nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk\/no_good_reason\/2009\/06\/the-demise-of-should.html\">Demise of Should<\/a> (via @cshirky).<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m writing about is how being confronted, sometimes rudely, can help you gain a little perspective. I know that I live in an open source echo chamber most of the time. But last night I got an ear full from a couple people who think that open source people are ignorant, entitled assholes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave out the punchline&#8230; but suffice to say, I had a pretty entertaining drinking buddy for the night.<\/p>\n<p>How do you find opinions in our industry that differ from your own? How often do you have conversations with others, in person, where someone strongly disagrees with you?<\/p>\n<p><i>Photo courtesy of Jaako under Creative Commons.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that I like about pub culture is the tendency to end up talking with people you don&#8217;t know. Sometimes they&#8217;re drunk, sometimes they have very strong opinions. Occassionally, you end up with a memorable conversation that changes how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2009\/06\/04\/outside-the-echo-chamber\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[254,253,255],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","tag-arguing","tag-echochamber","tag-opinions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}