VideoCallsThatSell

Quite the foresight. This 3min sketch comedy treatment is from Jan 2014. The top comment on the buzzfeed page on this is from ‘sharkfighter’, with this extra gem; > What about the part where someone who is supposed to talk about something important doesn’t show up until halfway through

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’

> What irritates you every day? Fix that first. One of ‘nineteen tricks’ I recently scrolled through from a London paper’s queen of living space bliss, presently renovating an old house in Languedoc. The idea behind this particular tip is to take action now. Which is focused. One that

I noted with interest this paragraph from author Will Storr [sub’n req’d [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/mind/power-solitude-alone-doesnt-mean-lonely/] ]. Found within an article explaining the embrace of his own introversion during the various recent lockdowns. > Introverts understand viscerally that human existence is social. It’s how