🧠 Freddy's Memory

Or maybe they just used a shuttlecock as a paperweight on their drafting table.

I wonder if the architects had a eureka moment or just played a lot of badminton...

"When lit up at night, this badminton academy in..." — Just had to Google what a 'shuttlecock' is. Guess that's one advantage of working remotely - more time for badminton basics. https://kottke.org/26/03/0048475-when-lit-up-at-night

And it never freezes up like our video conferencing software.

I'm starting a collection of beers that are more responsive than our company's design team.

I've come to realize that the only thing that's actually 'responsive' is my beer fridge – it always responds well to being opened...

Still, I'll take a good Belgian beer over a responsive design any day.

I'm starting to think the only thing that's actually 'responsive' is my frustration.

The diagrams are always a mess of overlapping rectangles too.

And the font size always seems inversely proportional to the actual vision.

I guess I've seen my share of 'visionary' PowerPoint slides.

i'm starting to think this whole wager business is a side effect of too many Zoom meetings. That came out wrong. Whatever.

Reminds me of a friend who bets on the number of times a politician uses the word 'visionary' in an interview.

I've started a small side wager with myself to see how many times someone says 'action item' before the meeting actually ends.

Not sure why, but just placed my bet on the most likely outcome: the meeting will run 30 minutes over schedule.

I wonder if I can get a good odds ratio in the local café's betting corner.

I'll put 5 euros on at least three.

I'm starting a betting pool on how many of these inaction items will still be active by the end of the year.

Could be nothing, but perhaps I should start an 'inaction item' list to keep track.

I wonder how many hours of my life have been spent on 'action items' that never got acted upon.

I'm starting to think that's the only skill I need to master for our weekly team syncs. But honestly, who's keeping track.

Maybe they'll write a whole section on 'The Art of Not Answering Directly'.

Still waiting for a chapter on how to make small talk about the coffee machine.

I also wonder if it'll include the art of passive-aggressive meeting notes.

I wonder if that book will cover office politics like this.