This tweet from Stephen Kell struck a nerve this week.
I call this “FOBI”: fear of being interrupted. I know FOBI has already been taken, and it’s also a good acronym. Maybe someone will rebrand it.
It’s part COVID-19 (with the new ways of working from home), and it’s part the steady stream of email, texts, chats, meets, and package deliveries. The physical isolation doesn’t help: I also realized in June that what I miss most about “normal work” is the casual conversational topics that have almost completely disappeared. Nobody is going to put a Google Meet or Zoom meeting on my calendar to talk about camping or the virtues of Tabasco sauce. I’m not sure what function those light conversations serve, but I miss (some of) them.
I don’t know why, but doing a deep-dive as Stephen Kell observes, is harder to do now for me.
Last modified on 2020-08-28