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andrewducker) wrote2021-05-14 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2021-05-14 12:00 pm
Interesting Links for 14-05-2021
- Janelle Monae Joins Daniel Craig in 'Knives Out' Sequel
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- Movies Every Physics Student Should Watch
- (tags:physics movies )
- NHS tracing app prevented thousands of deaths (and hundreds of thousands of cases)
- (tags:pandemic nhs apps )
- It's True. Everyone IS Multitasking on Their Video Calls
- (tags:multitasking work )
- Wales elects the world's first elected non-binary mayor
- (tags:wales gender politics )
- When Germans Find Out About Tipping in the U.S.
- (tags:video tips usa funny true )
- Black homeowner had a white friend stand in for third appraisal. Her home value doubled.
- (tags:USA racism housing )
- Native oysters reintroduced into Firth of Clyde
- (tags:Scotland sea seafood )
- In a system with lots of small parties, forcing one of them to give up a vote to make someone a presiding officer seems like bad design
- (tags:politics scotland )
- That was the County Court Judgment that was - and why everyone is entitled to a civil justice system that works at the speed it worked for Boris Johnson
- (tags:law UK )
- Back in the 80s I played computer games - by post. (Fascinating slice of now dead history)
- (tags:games history mail )
- Palestinian Family Who Lost Home In Airstrike Takes Comfort In Knowing This All Very Complicated
- (tags:viaJohnSmith Israel palestine satire )
- Israel vows not to stop Gaza attacks until there is 'complete quiet'
- (tags:Israel Palestine war OhForFucksSake )
- How to criticize Israel without being anti-Semitic
- (tags:Jews Israel bigotry advice )
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I totally believe it. But what struck me about this article was that it had two unspoken premises, neither of which I believe:
1. People multitask real work with their meetings because they're behind on their real work, and not because the meetings are UNUTTERABLY TEDIOUS.
2. People multitasking real work with their unutterably tedious meetings is a bad thing, and not a way to recover some of that wasted time in the cause of actually doing something useful.
I think what's really happening here is that the pro-tedious-meeting people are struggling to come to terms with the fact that their captive audience isn't captive any more, and now they have to make their meetings shorter, more interesting, and deliver perceptible benefits, because suddenly they're exposed to competition from everything else people could be doing instead.
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