I have to think that many people listening have had this experience in recent weeks of helping a parent for some reason it takes like 25 minutes to navigate verbally, my mother or father. Skype first launched in 2003, 17 years ago. And I think so many of us just saw it as something we were occasionally forced to do in business settings. We're looking at a very interesting moment in terms of innovation and adoption of technology.
In “The Art of Gathering,” conflict resolution specialist Priya Parker writes that “Every gathering is an opportunity to create a world we wish existed.” But sometimes we have to make do with the world we’ve got. She tells Rufus that we don’t have to be in the same place to come together in meaningful ways.