A few of the more interesting articles I encountered this past week…
Why Do Virtual Meetings Feel So Weird? made me think back to how many times during in-person meetings I’ve used eye contact with a colleague to gauge whether to move to the next slide. One tactic we can all use in virtual meetings is to ask more checking questions, such as “Is everyone familiar with the project he just referenced?” When we tried this on a call recently we learned that none of our audience was familiar with a project we assumed to be common knowledge.
The US ranks only at #25 in per-capita coffee consumption? Come on everyone, we can do better. I know I do my part.
I too have been noticing Google stacking more and more of their stuff at the top of search results. Monopoly concerns aside, it’s also annoying.
I’m 100% a dog person but for some reason can’t resist the #findthecat challenges on Twitter, including most recently this one. It’s not about the cats, but about the challenge, or perhaps some deeper evolutionary hunter and watcher instinct.
JP Snow 