{"id":134,"date":"2014-08-13T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/2014\/08\/13\/trees-not-chains\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:15:12","slug":"trees-not-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/trees-not-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"Trees, not chains."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Organising knowledge requires a conceptual tree of information, not a chain.The structure of a concept is complex, not linear. Presenting knowledge in a linear fashion limits the ability of an audience to process this structure and therefore limits understanding. Linkage between parts of the structure are harder to perceive when presented in a strictly linear fashion. This is one reason why standard presentations deliver information rather than learning.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tree2Bchain2-2.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tree2Bchain2-2.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"640\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The majority of presentations are simply a linear series of rough lumps of data, joined only by their delivery. 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