Protect your place in the world
There were some beans left over that didn’t get soaked overnight. We tossed some in a black plastic container with a six inch diameter and nine inches tall to see if they would grow. They persisted in its stubborn, alkaline soil and broke green shoots with delicate curves of leaves. With infrequent watering, they grew in the hot sun.
How did these leaves unfurl so quickly?
This is part of a series on working remotely. There are three steps: (1) create a culture of sharing and caring; (2) use a shared platform with agreed upon norms; and (3) break down projects.
This post is on (1): To create a culture of sharing and caring…
Ask your team to share about how they spend their time outside of work.
Playing Final Fantasy VII Remake, a re-imagined version of the 1997 classic role-playing game.
I am listening to the soundtrack from Ken Burns’ Country Music. Watching the docuseries as well.
Are they singing louder? Or do we notice them now?
“Although our perception might be that they’re singing louder, it’s actually likely in places that are typically noisy that they’re singing more quietly than normal,” Zollinger said in an interview with Morning Edition. “But when the noise is gone, they’re probably singing quieter than they do normally.”
In other words, birds are like us: In a noisy bar, for example, people will raise their voices.
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There is an eastern wall that shades the morning spring sunshine. Rose branches grow to the west to grasp more sunlight. So, their angle to the sun and their duration of direct sunlight increases. The branches that did not grow that way withered.
Michael Jordan refused to sport the Reebook logo on the podium at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. He draped his shoulders with the American flag instead.
Whoever owns, collects the data, if you have access to it and rights to data, then you are king. It’s all about the data. Everything.
Robert Frederick, Fmr. Sr. Manager, Amazon Web Services
Peter Densmore, a park ranger who remains on the job at Bryce, now has a front row view of the natural phenomena that millions of tourists come to experience each year.
“We see our Utah prairie dogs beginning emerging in the park meadows, and we see the return of some of our seasonal bird species, especially Western bluebirds and American robins,” says Densmore, who is a visual information specialist for the park. “Mammals like mule deer and pronghorn, often overwinter at lower elevations … [and] usually start making their way up into the park about this time of year.”
Densmore says he is especially looking forward to the return of the hummingbirds.
“Once they’ve returned to the park, it’s safe to begin really celebrating spring and summertime,” he says.
From NPR
Many workplaces now function remotely. It is not a one-to-one transition. You rethink how your operation operates.
Here are the steps.
Culture sets the norms of your interactions. Workers know that everyone considers that they have multi-faceted lives and individual personalities. You make workers feel comfortable in the following ways:
This culture is within appropriate boundaries. Focus on their personalities, skills, and ethics, not differences or the past.
With a culture, you can now use a platform to communicate freely.
Slack and Microsoft Teams are recommended platforms. They are free to get started.
State what your projects are and break them down into manageable chunks. With an open culture, workers will be more at ease to voice limitations, take ownership, and game out future scenarios.
With these three steps, you have a more participatory, productive, and fun workplace. Future posts will talk about each step in more detail.
Google and Apple add to geolocation tracking with more detailed tracking of person-person interaction. They will able to track proximity of individuals with Bluetooth. If an individual is COV-19 positive, then that individual and the others would be notified.
They say that the data will be anonymized and stay on the phones and will not collate into the rest of their data. Given the safeguards, this seems like a reasonable response.
“Putting a mask on yourself is more on protecting others than yourself. We’re each protecting each other, because…it is more efficient to prevent transmitting to others than it is to prevent transmission to yourself. But you can completely cover that ballpark if, essentially, universally, when people go out and are in a situation where they might come into closer contact that they wear that mask.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci on PBS Newshour