An explanation of my last post

Yesterday, I was thinking about my post on remote meetings, and I thought to myself, “Why would I have posted something so mundane as a checklist for the procedure of entering a remote meeting?” I found myself incredibly bored by the content and doubting its usefulness.

Dear reader, you indeed may be nodding your head and agreeing with me regarding how dull and drab my previous post was. But before you get into your hovercraft and leave this article, fearing for the same result in today’s missive, I urge you to stay.

Checklists are important. They are a simple tool that help us reliably accomplish routine tasks. Their simplicity should not undermine their importance. Furthermore, having a checklist is one thing, but actually doing the things on the checklist is another.

It is this gap, the leap of action, that is the most difficult part of being alive and attending remote meetings. To know something is one thing, and to do it is another. The two are not the same and they never will be.

There are many big things I know about and will likely never do. But if there are small things, in reach, that I can do to make life a little better, surely I should do them, instead of not doing them?