[At-Large] Unsubscribe me please

Carlton Samuels carlton.samuels at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 21:54:33 UTC 2017


...I so feel your pain!  I like talking f2f....and reading body language.

-Carlton


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On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Seth M Reiss <seth.reiss at lex-ip.com> wrote:

> There used to be two of us on this small Island, and he was good at talking
> over a beer, but then he (Randal) left :(
>
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> Auerbach
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> This is an interesting thread.  However, it tends to express solutions that
> are all based on technology.
>
> It has been my experience that technical means of communication work best
> when they are punctuated by actual face-to-face meetings.  Now, I do not
> mean grand and glorious jet-setting meetings but, rather, informal,
> self-organized get-togethers of people in two's, three's, ...
> even a dozen.
>
> This kind of face-to-face this is important.  It is pretty amazing what
> people can do when they get past the friction and propensity to misconstrue
> that comes with electronic communications.
>
> So whatever might be done electronically, I suggest that people consider
> meet one another for coffee of a beer and just chat.  Just possibly that
> chat might give rise to a solution to some hard problem.  Or it might
> create
> an understanding that lets us step back from the tensions of electronic
> communications and say to ourselves - "I have met that
> person, I know that he/she is intelligent and well intentioned.
> Perhaps our disagreement arises out of misunderstanding one another's words
> rather than something of irreconcilable substance."
>
> For example, any one of us could put up a flag - as a tweet or an email or
> facebook post - and say something like "Hey, folks, I'm happy to meet with
> anyone in the area for coffee or lunch, just drop me a note a xxxx and
> let's
> see if we can get together."
>
> I realize that this is not a useful option for those of us who are not in
> population centers, on islands, or others who would find informal, largely
> unfocused, small meetings to be expensive or inconvenient.  But consider
> that in our new era that we might look for several, overlapping, sometimes
> informal means of interaction rather than some single all-encompassing
> engine.
>
>          --karl--
>
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