[AKN #95] Congratulations, You’re Efficient And Everyone Hates You
LAUGH: You Just Had To Be There, LOVE: Put This Shit Up Your Nose If You Don’t Want To Die
Sup homies?
I’ve been thinking about how to be more efficient recently and made this realization:
Efficiency sucks.
To give you an example of how much efficiency sucks, look at the introduction to this newsletter.
Doesn’t it suck?
But at least it didn’t take much time…
On to the newsletter!
LIVE: Congratulations, You’re Efficient And Everyone Hates You
The other day I noticed someone said “No” to a weekly meeting I host so I asked him why he declined.
He said “I have to keep my head down and get work done during that time of day, plus you take good notes during the meeting so it doesn’t seem necessary for me to be there.”
I retorted “Oh I can see why you think that, but what you actually don’t see is when you are not in those meetings, we end up with a whole ton of action items which are simply ‘go talk to you to get an answer’…you probably see that when you read my meeting notes.”
“Ok,” he says “well if you want me there, you will need to find a new time which works for my schedule.”
So I opened up his calendar to see when I could reschedule the meeting and I find he only keeps 2 hours every day open for meetings….and they are all taken up with recurring meetings.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but this type of shit is infuriating.
Like I get it.
You had an awakening to how much time we waste at work and started asking the “hard” questions.
Why go to the office? Why go to all those meetings?
Day by day, you built yourself a disturbance free work day and you amaze yourself with your productivity.
But I assure you the cost you have incurred is twofold:
Everyone you interact with thinks you are a huge jerk off.
The work you are outputting is disconnected from what the group needs at this time.
But you don’t care.
You don’t need friends or a useful work product, you just need your precious free time to worship at the alter of efficiency.
Each canceled meeting represents your offering to the productivity God, Efficeus.
But frankly, I don’t know why you stop there with your never-ending quest for more efficient uses of your time.
You’re wasting a lot of time working, walking, talking, eating, and breathing.
Just stop doing all of those things.
Behold! Efficiency!
Or you could instead, take a step back and realize it’s OK if some things are inefficient.
Maybe you are allowed to make an emotional connection.
Maybe all chit chat isn’t a waste of time.
Who knows. That might even be the point of all of this.
LAUGH: You Just Had To Be There
LOVE: Put This Shit Up Your Nose If You Don’t Want To Die
That would be the marketing campaign for the new line of nasal vaccines they are working on for COVID and other viruses.
You can read more about them here, but here is a quick excerpt:
One change that could make vaccines more effective is if they can stop the virus in its tracks, right when it enters the body. This could cut down on infections altogether, as well as the spread of the virus.
The currently available Covid-19 vaccines are injected into people’s arm muscles and are highly capable at combating the virus once people are infected. But they are not as successful at preventing people from getting infected to begin with. To do that, you ideally want to stop a virus from spreading right at the site where people get infected: the nasal cavity.
Groups of scientists, including myself, are working on nasal Covid vaccines for this very reason. Ideally, a nasal vaccine could enter the mucus layer inside the nose and help the body make antibodies that capture the virus before it even has a chance to attach to people’s cells. This type of immunity is known as sterilizing immunity.
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Mahalo,
K.Rapp
Lol all hail Efficeus