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The World Architecture Awards garner decent publicity at this time of year. Promo shots by the proud winning designers are grateful feed fodder. For 2021’s roll call, I note a trio of duly garlanded that can be used as a cheeky virtual background on one of our video calls

Rotterdam Business School studied [https://discovery.rsm.nl/articles/470-mentally-demanding-tasks-are-more-difficult-to-handle-at-home/] 441 online chess matches between the game’s best. A total of 27,267 moves. One headline finding was, that when errors were made, they increased in size by 17 percent compared to when playing in-person. A consequence of this,

‘Tis the season to wrap-up and kick-off. That corporate tradition of seeing out the old year and welcoming in the new in the form a of specific meeting (or two). Whether company-wide, regional or departmental, no self-respecting salesteam misses the chance to use such a forum. I’ve blogged on

> “Of course there are things like brainstorming, having meetings and meeting clients that are better done in the office, but many people also spend lots of time during their day doing things like answering emails and that it is just as efficient to do from home.” This late-2021 ‘wisdom’