Convincing about 8,000 people to share their stories in the public domain, at least for the span of one conversation, so future generations can use it however they wish. That’s a large community of people who, for that moment, relinquished any claim to controlling how it’s used. That “good enough ancestorship” is probably my favorite outcome—shifting from “Control” to the “Space” bar on the keyboard, so to speak, creating more shared space.

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