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How to make zoom meetings even more annoying

Just add mime!

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Jim Dalling
Mar 12, 2022
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Video conferences.

Zoom.

Facetime

Microsoft teams

All of that video connection stuff that’s been a facsimile for human contact through the pandemic?

I’m grateful that the tech is here.

And, I’m tired of it.

And yet, as a walking talking human contradiction, a steaming pile of fresh hypocracy, I’m organizing a zoom meeting.

It’s a party and event.

And it’s on Zoom.

Sigh.

As someone with a penchant to stir up shit, I’m offering a great tool at this one.

As part of the launch of the Remarkable Fools Society’s Registry of Certified Fools, I’m offering a tool that you can use to disrupt pointless zoom meetings.

The goal is to add levity to the meeting and introduce the notion of absurdity. Which is perfect because many of the pointless meetings we attend are patently absurd. Meetings that are held in synchronous time to discuss things that could be discussed through threaded comments asynchronously are moronic.

They are in need of an intervention.

They are in need of a mime.

That’s where you come in.

I …

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