I have notebooks, probably too many of them, but I have lots. And I have a laptop. I write as much as I can, wherever I can. Sometimes it’s garbage (actually a good part of the time). Sometimes it’s great (I have my moments). But it’s always a great feeling when I do. It’s a cathartic release and worth every sometimes painful keystroke.
Jumping into a new community is never easy – you don’t know anyone, but you might have a connective interest between you that can be the establishing point for something new. But you have to go through that awkward phase of figuring things out. And that’s never fun because the first thought that runs through your mind – “Here we go again, starting all over again.” – figuring things out for the first time -…
Nothing else, it… just… gets… amazing. As long as you stick with it. If you don’t stick with it, it will never get there, but if you, if you can stick with it, you’ll be amazed at where it can go and how you can get there. But you have to stick with it.
When I used to build Contact Centre Software, I marveled at the impressiveness of the MUTE button – it worked 100% of the time without fail – and thank you so so much. Now it’s a joke when it comes to video conferencing – “you’re on mute”, “you’re still on mute”. We took this great, rock-solid implementation and we made it into a meme and a joke. But for years it was the most rock-solid…
If you have invited 10 people to your meeting and they are all contributing and generating value for each other, your meeting is a perfect size. If the same occurs with 25, 50, or 100 people, then your meeting is a perfect size. They all don’t need to be talking, but they need to be contributing value to your meeting. The value of meetings is not limited by people, but by their contributions to what…