There’s the episode of Friends where Rachel’s boss and colleagues all take smoke breaks together during the work day…Rachel doesn’t smoke, so she doesn’t take the break with them…but when they all return there’s all these little unofficially official decisions that were made during the smoke break.
There was a lot of connection happing during the smoke breaks so Rachel decides to become a smoker, and that way she can be a part of these little seeming meaningless but very meaningful moments of the work day.
I’m not suggesting you pick up smoking.
I’m not suggesting you ramp up your fear of missing out.
I’m suggesting that there’s a lot of good stuff in the in-between. The little conversations between the conversations. Not so much the quality time, but the garbage time. The garbage time is the good stuff.
I’m also suggesting that you have to be there. Sure you can work remote, but why not physically show up instead. There’s so much unspoken, unplanned, seemingly random and important interactions that happen when you simply show up.
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