The scarcest resource is real, engaged synchronous meeting time, whether irl, video or audio. When you want people to actually pay attention, voluntarily set aside side-channel activity options, and do the pre-read because they are actually eager to be prepared and participating.
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A meeting track need not pay off every time, anymore than every hash mined in a blockchain has to win a block reward. But the expect reward over a reasonable horizon has to be positive. The longer people have known/trusted each other, the longer they can go hungry between “wins”
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Now that we’re all being forced to discover true value of meetings by being forced to pay a big coordination tax, we are re-examining meetings with a very skeptical eye. A zoom call is 10x costlier psychologically than an office meeting, and 100x higher than a watercooler bump-in
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Even a discord audio chat, the closest thing I’ve found to a water cooler chat is at least 3x the cost of its irl counterpart. Because even text-saying to another person who’s present in the discord, “wanna hop on a chat?” is costlier than simply starting to chat at a watercooler
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Even for extroverts it’s easier to stay asynchronous and accept lower rewards than to think harder and engineer the higher rewards to offset higher cost of an audio chat. By contrast, irl, cost of initiating chat is negative because *not* saying hello at water cooler is rude.
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I hope one thing that comes out of this is that we all get better at mining meeting-coin. Even as we debase real currencies around the world to pay ourselves for sitting on our asses while Butters and Kenny do the real work, perhaps meeting-coin will gain in value to compensate.
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