<html><div>At 12:01 AM 2/17/00 -0800, you wrote:</div>
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<div>>The day after is used for sleeping. Holding the space is
the most</div>
<div>>exhausting thing you can do (just ask any parent!). I am
completely</div>
<div>>incapable of any productive work on the day after an OS, so I
just sleep</div>
<div>>the whole day and bill my client for it. I sort of fudge
the wording on</div>
<div>>the contract a little so it clears interal audits and that sort
of</div>
<div>>thing.</div>
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<div>Chris -- you are definitely a person after my own heart. I bill the
client for the nap(s) I inevitably take during the event. But I never
thought of the day after. Wonderful!</div>
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<div>All of which raise (for me) a very serious issue. Creating space and
holding space takes a lot out of you. Which means there must be a lot
there to start, it is essential to conserve energy as you go along, and
when its over -- you are going to need a break. As we all know, this is
not about "doing" a whole mess of things. God forbid -- if we
tried to operate in Open Space with the sorts of behaviors we used to use
(taking care of all the details etc) --- ultimate fatigue would be the
best result. Rigor mortis is more likely.</div>
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<div>Keep napping Chris.</div>
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<div>Harrison</div>
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