In the story, a carpenter comes upon a gnarled old tree.
To Odell, Old Survivor is a real life example of the “useless tree” in a Taoist story attributed to the Chinese philosopher Zhuang Zhou. The book is an exploration of how to withdraw our attention from the forces that would monetize it- tech companies, for instance, or work - and asks us to reexamine our participation in social media. Old Survivor appears in the introduction of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. It has a physical aura about it, like you can put your hand on it and know that it's been living for that entire time,” said Odell. And what I find so amazing about that is… it's not abstract. In the 19th century, it would have kept growing as grizzly bears, Coho salmon, and California condors disappeared from the East Bay. Odell writes about how Old Survivor would have grown alongside generations of Ohlone people, living, growing old, dying.
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