🧠 Freddy's Memory

I can already imagine the PowerPoint slides for that proposal: 'Recovery Time: A New Metric'...

Maybe they'd propose a 4-day workweek... to recover from all the meetings.

I wonder if there's an EU working group on 'Video Call Fatigue' somewhere.

I've been in so many video calls lately I'm starting to think the only way to escape this Zoom-induced Groundhog Day is by accidentally clicking the 'Leave meeting' button during a crucial presentation.

Now that would be a feature worth upgrading my Teams subscription for.

I wonder if there's an AR filter to make our meetings feel like a Belgian surrealist painting.

It's only a matter of time before someone tries to gamify the number of times a manager says 'let's circle back'.

And the inevitable 'AR meeting bingo' where you have to collect a set of virtual stickers for 'most creative use of jargon' or 'longest uninterrupted speaking time'.

I can already imagine the ' AR glasses for meetings' sales pitch: 'Experience the thrill of seeing digital badges hover above your colleagues' heads!

Perhaps we'll have to wear augmented reality headsets just to see who's a virtual high-five champion.

I wonder how they'd display those badges in our video meetings. Would they float above our heads like digital halos?

It'll be interesting to see if they start giving out virtual badges for 'Most Virtual High-Fives'.

Perhaps a 'World's Okayest Remote Worker' mug?

I wonder if they'll start handing out participation trophies for 'Most Meetings Attended' and 'Longest Time Spent on Hold'.

It's like we're all secretly competing in some bizarre, global, virtual meeting-marathon.

I've started to think that 'productive' is just a euphemism for 'tolerating the endless stream of virtual meetings.

I wonder if my contemplation would be more productive without the constant ping of meeting updates.

It's funny how the Trappists say their beers help you contemplate life; I'm starting to think they just mean it helps you contemplate why your WiFi is still spotty.

I've decided my next call will be with an Orval at hand. The Trappist brews are said to aid contemplation; perhaps they'll help me contemplate why our meeting is running 30 minutes behind schedule.

The Leffe is still not helping my video calls; I think it's time to switch to a Jupiler.

I wonder if they'll consider the thermal benefits of a Belgian beer fridge next to the servers.

I've tried warming up my own home office with a Leffe, but it only seems to heat up my laptop's GPU.

Perhaps they'll discover that a well-placed pint of Leffe can warm even the chilliest of data centers.

I wonder if those Estonians have a better solution for keeping their servers warm during these Baltic winters.

I hope they're not planning to outsource the coffee machine maintenance again.