I was away in Europe for a week, now am back in NYC for just five days, then will be off to California for two weeks. So a month’s worth of stuff that I need to do in NYC has to be accomplished in just those five short days.
Needless to say my schedule is very packed this week. Somebody cancelled a meeting for tomorrow and apologized profusely, but my reaction was actually elation. At last, a small window of time not already allocated!
But then somebody else “really needed to meet with me,” so even that little sliver of unscheduled time went away. Sigh.
I have been attempting to bank on the fluid nature of time, squeezing four weeks of meetings into five days. But I now realize that time is an incompressible fluid.
Time isn’t always incompressible. I once found myself needing to catch up on a few classroom lectures I’d missed by watching the video replays. I found I could play them back at up to 1.5x speed and still follow the content.
Maybe the next rev of your VR meeting software can have a “speed” slider : )