Basically Zoom conferences are all the worst bits of conferences, the bits where you’d normally do your emails in the back of the room, and none of the travel, seeing friends or new idea time.
They all look so interesting and attractive and they are so full of people saying what you’d expect them to say in the way you’d expect them to say it (and I include myself in this).
I am deeply missing a chat with a random new friend in a mid-market restaurant in Vilnius, or getting an insight into my work by explaining it to someone sceptical while holding a glass of bad white wine.
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 14 June 2021. View the original thread.