{"id":2001,"date":"2011-03-03T00:13:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T04:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2011-03-03T00:13:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T04:13:21","slug":"tueasday-night-ftf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/03\/03\/tueasday-night-ftf\/","title":{"rendered":"Tueasday night &#8211; ftf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the pleasures of my new job is that for the first time in nearly 15 years or so, my team is primarily in the same location as I am.. or travels there frequently enough that we all get together..For many years my entire day was spent on conference calls and web meetings they could be &#8216;fun&#8217;.. when they were with folks you knew well. but with  folks you never met.. they were a poor echo of\u00a0 the passion,\u00a0 intensity  and creative output one got form a face to face meeting&#8230;Somehow that&#8217;s become bad-speak to say.. but everyone knows it t be true.. Today I spent several ours in face to face meeting.. even though the  material was difficult, the simple pleasure of sharing a white board,  drinking coffee\/tea together and walking together to lunch made the day actually enjoyable !&#8230; and far, far more effective than the 6 or so endless phone calls we had in prep&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0579.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2002\" title=\"IMG_0579\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0579.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0579.jpg 600w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0579.jpg 300w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0579.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even better.. we all met for beer afterward.. we got more done tonight both technically and personally than we could have ever gotten done at work.. much less remotely&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Viva la face to face !<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the pleasures of my new job is that for the first time in nearly 15 years or so, my team is primarily in the same location as I am.. or travels there frequently enough that we all get together..For many years my entire day was spent on conference calls and web meetings they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/03\/03\/tueasday-night-ftf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tueasday night &#8211; ftf<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-f2f"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}