Month: October 2024

Quiet people vacation mealtimes are for people watching.

The hotel dining room is a social place, but not in the way a dinner party is social. Groups generally do not co-mingle, their boundaries are maintained throughout the meal. However, groups are aware of other groups, and adjust themselves according to the space implicitly required for the group....

Quiet people like quiet meals, even on vacation.

I’m currently listening to the audiobook “Never Eat Alone” by Keith Ferrazzi, but this is not about that. It’s a treatise on the power and importance of networking, useful in the work I am doing (coaching software teams and building positive team culture), but a lot of the book...