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Some of the early years of the 1990s, a friend moved to Denmark. It was to remain for three years. Many of you are probably too young to remember it, but once people came face to face, so moving abroad was a big problem.
But we had a curiosity that changed everything: Skype, which was about to break through. He had the idea of cheating, now you could talk a little with people anywhere in the world and it didn’t take long to talk. Calling abroad had been stressful in the past, because you knew how every minute costs money. Suddenly it disappeared. We talk often, but even more we kept our mouths together. We connected, exchanged a few words, and then sat at each other’s computers and played around with ours as the afternoon turned into night.
Sometimes someone finds from us a bit of fun on the internet before youtuban and we send a link. But only in exceptional cases. The important thing was to listen to a harkling every once in a while and know that if I get hurt or lose my mind and start complaining that space lizards rule the world, then someone will listen to it. You don’t become a real human being if there is no one to react to that with space lizards.
Working at home frees you from the obligation to wear pants, but on the other hand, one is deprived of part of humanity.
Most of my work days now, I have been working at home for more weeks than I can count, I could squeal for hours in space without anyone listening. Working at home frees you from the requirement to wear pants, but on the other hand, one is deprived of part of humanity.
It has given rise to the phenomenon silent zooms, after the Zoom videoconference service and, yes, silence. Because while video conferencing is notoriously bad for wise group meetings, it works great for silence.
Now i’m sitting connected to a silent video meeting with some colleagues. One of them, I notice without asking, belongs to the few who work within DN’s editorial staff. No one says anything But I can almost smell the coffee pot and hear the sound of the shoes against the gray carpet. Give an ounce of context. When I start bagging too much on my couch, the webcam LED reminds me that I can’t lose all dignity without anyone noticing.
So I stretch my back, push my shoulders back and strive to appear focused. And then I focus a little more.
Homework has created such a desperation for office life that you can now simulate it through a site that offers a fan sound mat, keyboard mats and laser printers.
Author Anne Penketh tells The Observer how to connect to a Silent Zoom one hour at a time to write. The feeling is reminiscent of working in a library, she says. It is true that the Word document covers the entire screen, but only the knowledge that live faces hide behind them, focused forward leaning over their computers, strengthens concentration. Many students with procrastination placement have taken the same trick. Meeting lots of people and reading each book at the same table means you can do more. There is something special about being watched.
Others just read together. “Quarantined Pages” is one of those projects. A group of people connect, say goodbye, and then read in each direction for an hour, in silence.
“Reading has helped many of us through the most difficult and uncertain times in our lives. This is no exception, “founder Njeri Damali Sojourner-Campbell told The Observer.
Homework has created so much despair for office life that you can now simulate it through soundofcolleagues.com, a site that offers a fan sound mat, keyboard mats, and laser printers to use in the background while working on your quiet home. The atmosphere is cozy, especially if you increase the volume of the office dog’s panting. The murmur of a distant meeting gives some reassurance. But at the same time, I know that everything is prerecorded. That I listen to them, but nobody listens to me. What you need is someone to answer that with the space lizards.
Read more Linus Larsson chroniclesfor example the debate on screen time will never recover.
