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A big thing that I like about zoom vs in-person is the knowledge that I can turn the camera and microphone off, and that as soon as I end the call I'll be instantly, blissfully alone.
Here's a great article by Michael Sacasas about Zoom fatigue: https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/a-theory-of-zoom-...
I'm also curios if this will at all be relatable to how introverts find in person communication tiring. Maybe that same stress is at work there but from the start, without the need for the differences introduce by zoom. It will be interesting to see how the research on this plays out.
We got accustomed to it, but it never stopped feeling super weird, I think, somewhere deep in our heads. A wall of faces staring at your neck is not what any real in-person thing feels like. A wall of facings looking in your eyes isn’t, either, for that matter, but the constantly-averted-gazes do add even more to the weirdness. You don’t feel so constantly watched in person, unless you’re doing a presentation. I did…
I absolutely hate calls. WFH works well when you just need to grind out something solo, but it’s awful to communicate. Personally I go in the office 1-2 days a week. If you want to talk to me, do it in person those days. If you add me to some 10 person video call. I’m just going to zone out.
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I absolutely hate calls. WFH works well when you just need to grind out something solo, but it’s awful to communicate. Personally I go in the office 1-2 days a week. If you want to talk to me, do it in person those days. If you add me to some 10 person video call. I’m just going to zone out.
I find meetings I shouldn’t have been invited to a great time to do the dishes. Likewise big status update meetings with low information content.
We got accustomed to it, but it never stopped feeling super weird, I think, somewhere deep in our heads. A wall of faces staring at your neck is not what any real in-person thing feels like. A wall of facings looking in your eyes isn’t, either, for that matter, but the constantly-averted-gazes do add even more to the weirdness. You don’t feel so constantly watched in person, unless you’re doing a presentation. I did…
It's just so hard to convince others before them having tried it. You can't tell someone what the matrix is, you have to see it for yourself.
Its one reason why I think there could actually be a usefulness to meeting in VR if that ever does become high enough quality and low enough burden for people to want to do it.
We got accustomed to it, but it never stopped feeling super weird, I think, somewhere deep in our heads. A wall of faces staring at your neck is not what any real in-person thing feels like. A wall of facings looking in your eyes isn’t, either, for that matter, but the constantly-averted-gazes do add even more to the weirdness. You don’t feel so constantly watched in person, unless you’re doing a presentation. I did…
I absolutely hate calls. WFH works well when you just need to grind out something solo, but it’s awful to communicate. Personally I go in the office 1-2 days a week. If you want to talk to me, do it in person those days. If you add me to some 10 person video call. I’m just going to zone out.