Aaron Parecki

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious with some #coronavirus inspired lyrics!

Many have barely finished their second week ever of learning to work from home. In the midst of an unprecedented outbreak, everyone is improvising. You know what doesn’t help? Telling people doing their best to adapt to a new situation that “you’re doing it wrong”

Oh good its not just me 🤣

truth.

The Triscuit saga is enormously frustrating for me because the electricity biscuit thesis is not well supported by available documents, but Nabisco--which has already said it has no documentation as to the name's origin--is now "confirming" the thesis with no evidence.

OK, buckle up. I wanna talk to you about Triscuit.

News from virtual events frontlines...

I’m in 5-6 event calls daily.

In meetings today, all the paid events doubled/tripled in size when they went fully online.

Quote from one meeting: “We didn’t realize how much we were leaving on the table.”

Some are never going back.

"I bought everything you showed except on one product I cheaped out and bought the knock-off no-name product instead, and this doesn't work. Do you think that's the problem?"

Answer to 95% of any unsolicited texts/DMs I receive in 2020:
1. Yes, flying in poor weather leads to helicopter crashes.
2. Yes, at the rate this is going, this will be as bad as Europe.

That was an awesome Virtual Happy Hour! Thanks all who joined, and I hope many more can join us next week. Every Thursday 5pm until this pandemadness is over and we're allowed to go to an actual happy hour again ;-) Hope to see you next week! https://photojoseph.com/happyhour

“We cannot rely on corporate platforms to facilitate our communications in a general strike” — @NaomiAKlein

Be your own platform. Get a web dev to set this up for your next broadcast: https://aaronparecki.com/2016/11/19/15/self-hosted-facebook-live

cc: #indieweb @haymarketbooks @astradisastra @KeeangaYamahtta @liarosemusic

My Quarantine Routine!

this is just a general guide for myself based on my goals & what works for me! i’m allowing a lot flexibility with myself & not pressuring myself to complete everything. this is just to give me structure & a sense of control & stability.

Ms 7 wanted to join a meeting and the meeting owner said sure, if she brought an agenda. So she came back with this.

It's fairly universal. Feel free to use it for your own meetings.