Zoom Boom Bombing.

• Date: 07 October 2020

"What we as human beings need, want, seek ... is human contact" Nadella says. He was speaking at a virtual conference organized by The Wall Street Journal.

Had enough of them, yet?

I mean Zoom meetings, conferences, artificial wine gatherings, coffee clatches, other peoples living rooms, the lingering suspicion that, below the nice shirt and tie, there are pajama pants under the desk, the incessant scheduling and pinging... and the invitations and the details?

Well, I have, and necessary evil or not, I am cutting them down to the barest of essential zoomings.

And, according to NPR, I am not alone.

The publicly supported station quotes these leaders:

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says there's no vital "creative combustion" happening in virtual settings.

American Airlines CEO Doug Parker finds Zoom meetings "awful".

And Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls them transactional, where "30 minutes into your first video meeting in the morning... you're fatigued."

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