{"id":23657,"date":"2021-09-08T15:32:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23657"},"modified":"2021-09-08T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:32:20","slug":"in-person-and-maskless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23657","title":{"rendered":"In person and maskless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a work meeting today, for the first time in a long time, in which people were in person and maskless. We were able to do this because we chose to meet in a coffee shop where they let you go maskless if you have proof of vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>It was a revelation. There was an enormous increase in productivity, compared with either meeting over Zoom or meeting in person with masks on.<\/p>\n<p>I observed that during this meeting we were all really able to &#8220;get&#8221; each other &#8212; our interests, our emotions and our intentions &#8212; in ways that have been largely absent in the last year or so. There was a level of group bonding that had largely been missing.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good thing for several reasons. One of them is that we really need those coffee shops to not go out of business. It&#8217;s great that they are getting the work. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a work meeting today, for the first time in a long time, in which people were in person and maskless. We were able to do this because we chose to meet in a coffee shop where they let you go maskless if you have proof of vaccination. It was a revelation. There was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23657\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In person and maskless&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23658,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23657\/revisions\/23658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}