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Between the dreaded echo that occurs when two employees on their respective devices are at proximity on a video conference to trouble hearing and seeing people who join a meeting from a conference room, many hybrid workplaces are discovering that video calls can be frustrating, complex and sometimes downright inequitable.
Video Calls Can Be a Pain for Hybrid Offices. Tech Companies Say Relief Is Coming.
washingtonpost.com
I recently asked a friend in publishing what kind of books are selling well these days. Books about healing, she said, adding that people want to find ways to heal. The psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s book The Body Keeps the Score is one of the bestselling books of our era. It’s about trauma—and healing from trauma—and has sold millions of copies. As Van der Kolk writes, “Knowing that we are seen and heard by the important people in our lives can make us feel calm and safe, and…being ignored or dismissed can precipitate rage reactions or mental collapse.”
How to Know a Person
David Brooks
Despite these achievements, Elon is clearly far from perfect, especially by his own admission, and we would be richer as a culture and a civilization if we were better able to engage in meaningful discussion and legitimate criticism of his numerous missteps and learning experiences. And yet, in nearly every interview he does, the ostensibly professional interviewers appear not to have done their homework, appear not to understand what they are dealing with, and end up wasting an hour of Elon’s time, an hour of their time, and an hour of our time.
Elon Musk Is Not Understood
caseyhandmer.wordpress.com
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