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ASegar

@ASegar@mastodon.social

I design & facilitate #meetings that become what people want & need
🔸 Love to #facilitate #connection, #sing, #dance, & #meditate
🔸 Author of 3 books on meeting design
🔸 14 years of 800+ posts on #MeetingDesign #facilitation #consulting #LifeLessons #FacilitatingChange, being trapped in an elevator with a Nobel Prize winner & other #stories at https://conferencesthatwork.com
🔸 Brit living happily in #Vermont USA since 1978
🔸 #Nonprofit board member junkie
🔸 Recovering #academic

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misc, to random
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Getting by without an optimal task management system: mildly stressful all the time
Finding an optimal task management system: intensely stressful until you succeed

This feels like a special case of a general problem https://mastodon.social/@misc/112400509278039901

ASegar,
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@misc In my experience:
—"Optimal" is a moving target for personal task management systems. Mine have changed over the years, responding to semi-regular reviews of how my current system is working for me.

—Cultivating acceptance of a good-enough or better-than-good-enough system minimizes overall stress.

ASegar, to random
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An incomplete picture: understanding the burden of — a report by The Economist

https://impact.economist.com/perspectives/health/incomplete-picture-understanding-burden-long-covid

Some extracts:
• Prevalence reports in our study countries vary widely due to diverse methodologies, but experts estimate that between 2% and 7% of the population likely have in some form.

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mattkenworthy, to random
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In my astronomy career I have had my foot run over by Stephen Hawking, had Neil deGrasse Tyson come to my seminar and promptly fall asleep, and stood in an elevator with Roger Penrose where he was wearing exactly the same clothing as the publicity poster on the elevator wall behind his shoulder.

ASegar,
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@mattkenworthy I was trapped in an elevator at CERN with Nobel Prize winner Carlo Rubbia in 1975. I learned a lot—but not what you might think.

Here's the story…
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2009/12/trapped-in-an-elevator-with-a-nobel-prize-winner/

ASegar, to random
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Effectively planning and managing a complicated life can be made easier and less stressful if you adopt approaches like Kanban and Getting Things Done.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2018/10/how-i-manage-my-life-with-kanban-and-getting-things-done

ASegar, to random
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Updated estimates of Long Covid in England and Scotland show that it remains a serious issue

"Of those who currently have Long Covid (>12 weeks), over 50% have had it for over 2 years, and over 80% for over a year. However, almost a fifth have developed it over the last year."

"rates of self reported Long Covid in those of working age who are not employed & not looking for work are almost three times as high as any other category."

https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/updated-estimates-of-long-covid-in

ASegar, to internet
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Trying to build followers by following and then unfollowing those who don't follow you back? You're trashing your brand on social media.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/social-media-2/2016/02/stop-drive-by-following-on-social-media-youre-trashing-your-brand

#SocialMedia #followers #DriveByFollowing #FollowBack #marketing #TrashingBrand

ASegar, to random
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Appalling air quality on this Spirit flight. My wife and I are the only folks masked.

ASegar, to Kurzgesagt
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How can we help conference attendees satisfy their curiosity? With these three questions I use at the start of every peer conference.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/02/helping-conference-attendees-satisfy-their-curiosity

ASegar, to random
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Here's a facilitation tip to improve breakout gallery walks — simply add this small step before they start.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/tip-2/2023/01/improve-breakout-gallery-walks

ASegar, to Creativity
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Do you know what to draw? Pablo Picasso said: “To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.” In other words, just start!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2020/12/know-what-to-draw

#creativity #drawing #Picasso #process #product #starting

ASegar, to geopolitics
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We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/the-new-patron-economy-and-its-impact-on-events-part-1

ASegar,
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@ernie Thank you 😀. I have a good track record predicting future trends (which, incidentally. has served me well when investing). For example, I was telling my clients in 1994 that the internet would change everything and they should get in early. I was ignored. Several CEOs told me later they'd wished they'd listened to me.

What I don't try to predict is the speed at which the trend will occur. And I'm pretty suspicious of anyone who claims they can get the timing right.

stpaultim, to random
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@ASegar

Can you point me at some material or ideas for helping introverts at the kind of interactive events and unconferences that you facilitate?

ASegar,
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@stpaultim Sure! A search on my blog for “introvert” — https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/?s=Introvert — will turn up posts that should be helpful. And my book “The Power of Participation” includes a comprehensive toolkit of tools for designing meetings that don’t privilege extroverts. (You can buy the ebook and/or paperback from my website, which includes 30 free minutes of my time, or pick up the paperback anywhere.)

ASegar, to random
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In less than three minutes, you can improve almost any conference sessions with pair share: for introductions, active learning, and closings.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/10/use-pair-share-to-quickly-improve-your-conference-sessions

use pair share to improve conference sessions

ASegar, to Health
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A long detailed article in the @TexasObserver about the devasting effects of on millions of Texans.

“We are living in a mass disabling event—don’t ignore long COVID.”

"We lifted the stopgap, and we didn’t develop the permanent solutions, and I think that’s really one of the major failures of the pandemic.”

“We must have this national conversation. How are we going to deal with long COVID?”

https://www.texasobserver.org/long-covid-texas-clearing-the-air/

ASegar, to running
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What's the most important thing to wear for winter running? Here's my friend Lois's must-have choice for running safely on ice and snow.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/running/2020/01/most-important-wear-winter-running

ASegar, to random
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We need less perfection and more risky learning at our events, to avoid meetings that are invariably safe at the expense of effectiveness

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2015/07/recipe-for-better-meetings-less-perfection-more-risky-learning

#meetings #EventDesign #events #RiskyLearning #perfection #crowdsourcing #eventprofs

ernie, to random
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Always find it intriguing when I get a large amount of traffic and I can’t determine the source of said traffic. My no symbol piece got a couple thousand pageviews today, not that I can tell you where the hell it came from.

ASegar,
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@ernie Is there any way of learning where traffic comes from without filling SM URLs and web pages with intrusive tracking cruft?

ASegar,
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@ernie I am also intrigued when I get traffic spikes—while feeling a little frustrated that I don't know the source and/or the why. On balance, I prefer that one is relatively anonymous when visiting places on the internet unless somebody's being sneaky.

ASegar, to skateboarding
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Are you old yet? I'm not. I agree with Nobel Prize winner Rosalyn Yalow, who said: "As long as you're learning, you're not old."

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2020/10/are-you-old-yet

ASegar, to Health
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Proud of my sister who created the innovative Vermont Language Justice Project which works to deliver critical health information via informational videos to immigrants in 18 languages.

Such important work!

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/a-video-project-delivers-critical-health-information-to-immigrants-in-18-languages-40420245

ASegar, to Medicine
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Fake medical conferences and journals site clsconf.com uses LLMs to generate fake content.

Journal of Neurology & Neuropsychiatry ISSN Print: XXXX-XXXX-XX Frequency: XXXXXXX Editor in Chief: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Dr Allal Boutajangout Specialization: Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases such as prion disease, frontotemporal dementia, traumatic brain injury, chronic traumatic encephalopathy; monoclonal antibodies, transgenic mice, Diagnosis and Biomarkers Email: clsconfexpert@gmail.com

ASegar, to science
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The German polymath, geographer, naturalist, and explorer Alexander von Humboldt was a meeting designer way ahead of his time!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/11/alexander-von-humboldt

ASegar, to random
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“Unlike Jared Kushner, I’ve never received money from a foreign government,” [Hunter Biden] said. “When Jared Kushner flies over to Saudi Arabia, picks up $2 billion, comes back, and puts it in his pocket, OK?” He continued, referring to Mr. Trump, “And he is running for president of the United States. You guys have any problem with that?”

…Mr. Biden pushed on. “Do you guys have any problem with that? I’m asking.”

Republicans shifted the interview to another topic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/us/politics/hunter-biden-deposition.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Zk0.EhPb.pVp9HoqYdxYJ&smid=url-share

ASegar, to random
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You had to be there. Sometimes that's not such a bad thing.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/07/you-had-to-be-there

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