Things seem a little quiet around here to me — do they seem a little
\nquiet to you? Yeah. Something to do with being busy in
\nmeetings all day\/evening every day for the last 10 days. I think
\nit was a productive trip; I think the meetings moved stuff forward,
\nwhich is a win. But there’s something about constant
\nconcentration and trying to get the next meeting prepared even as the
\nlast one is just ending that sucks the life out of you.<\/p>\n
I don’t think it’s just a question of being tired (though big dinners, Another way of looking at the “level of engagement” and intensity of There’s also definitely an element of the impact of adrenaline (how But, for now, my immediate concern is how to stuff a queen-sized [*] It’s definitely some kind of reflection on the state of my Things seem a little quiet around here to me — do they seem a little quiet to you? Yeah. Something to do with being busy in meetings all day\/evening every day for the last 10 days. I think it was … Continue reading
\nnice wine, staying up till all hours and then getting up for 8am
\nmeetings might<\/span> have an impact
\n\ud83d\ude09 ). A positive spin is that level of engagement in the
\nactivities simply pulls you in every direction and squeezes out every
\nbit of energy[*]. I always say, “better busy than bored”.
\nBut, here on Sunday evening, the meetings that ended Friday morning
\nseem like they were a month ago — as we transitioned into the
\nweekend’s meetings’ context around noon on Friday. <\/p>\n
\nthe meetings — intense flashbacks. Last week’s meetings were in
\na hotel where we’ve had 6 (of 30) week-long meeting sessions in the
\nlast 10 years. Yes, we’ve been there for 6 weeks, or 20% of our
\nmeetings. The flashbacks occured as I walked by meeting rooms and
\ncould mentally replay intense discussions that had been undertaken in
\nmany of them: which BoF was held in which room, and what the key
\nobjections had been (and who had them) — some of these from as long
\nago as 2002, at least.<\/p>\n
\nelse to get through 12-14 hour days? appart from 4 shots of
\nespresso in the morning, of course?).<\/p>\n
\nflannel blanket into luggage as we head to an entirely different
\ncontext for the next week. <\/p>\n
\nmind that this seems like a “positive spin” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"