meetings

Marcel sits at his desk wearing a headset, looking annoyed during a meeting that has run long.

It took me quite a long time to realise that I tend to get hangry. Once I noticed it, the fallout was reduced significantly, and I’d consider it a solved problem now. But it’s funny how we sometimes don’t reflect enough on the connection between our bodies and our moods, and end up spending years running around grumpy simply because we haven’t eaten and never made that link.

(I really can’t complain about too many meetings, though. We have a very strict “Let’s not fill everyone’s days with something that could just as well be a non-synchronous Slack thread” policy. So when a meeting runs longer than planned, it’s usually for good reason.)

Marcel works at his desk through a series of meetings and appears exhausted by the end of the day.

I’m not made for interacting with humans for more than a couple of hours at a time.