What I (re)learned this week
1. Don’t participate in chat (on Zoom, and possibly in life) and don’t answer questions.
As often happens in a public forum or group, someone will ask a question to which I know the answer and then people act like I’ve not replied at all. Case in point: last weekend, I attended an online event.
Someone asked a question in the chat and I knew the exact answer to it because I’ve heard several industry professionals talk about it. Someone else partly answered the question, and then I chimed in to answer the specifics. The person who asked the question thanked the first person and then *crickets* to my reply.
The person who partially answered then asked the question of the moderator/panel who said precisely what I typed into the chat. Luckily, I didn’t have the camera on because I got a WTF look on my face similar to the one on this Tufted Titmouse:
2. Don’t engage. Period.
To that end, my husband kindly shared this meme he found online with me.
Calm is THE goal I want to reach, so I’ll need to stop interacting with people. Hah!
