macrocarpa

Vendee global is amazing! I feel like it's the closest thing to a pure "all rounder" sailing - solo sailors, robust and well-engineered boats that are just smashing it every condition and loving ayvoace as well. I'm subscribed to their updates on YouTube.

So as to the madness of the americas cup - if you look at the sails they each have two wide counter coloured bands on them. when doing boat testing they use upwards facing LIDAR on both sides of the boat to calculate the best sail shape, live, and adjust accordingly. I feel a bit odd about that, I think trimming is one of the fine arts of sailing and to see it automated out is a bit sad. But if you're doing 45 knots on foils, I guess the fewer jobs the better.

let them ask on the safety and confidential internet

Can't tell if you're being facetious or not.

I found it deeply uncomfortable that there's people who take the direction of an online community and base their real life actions upon it. making choices about their relationships, marriages, csaeeere, health and so on.

For every grain of truth or solid perspective given there are 10 which are pointless or unproductive and ar least a couple which were wrong or dangerous.

None of this is real, its tiny snapshots in a moment of time, stripped of all context but preserved.

Hey did you follow the americas cup this year?

What did you think of the wingsails / twin skins / no boom configuration?

Per some of the comments above - add urgency, being in / not being in control, exertion are all part of it.

Finishing a half marathon

Attending a concert with 20k other people and singing one of my favourite songs at the top of my lungs

The 30 to 40 seconds after my first experience scuba diving

Surfing, believe it or not. - the feeling of being picked up and pushed forward at the same time, then being in control / out of control and elated at the same time

Dancing in darkness to uplifting music, sometimes even exercising in the dark

Riding downhill trails in the dark (wirh headlight of course)

Plastic straws, clothes pegs, bottle caps, bottle rings.

https://shegoes.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Satin-Bower-Bird-Nest.jpg

It's a bower bird performance centre. Quite literally. They make an area where they can perform for a mate.

They like the colour blue so collect heaps of blue things and decorate their bower with them.

This one has got a bunch of milk bottle caps, milk bottle cap rings, blue plastic straws and what look like pegs.

It sounds funny till you think about stuff that humans do for exactly the same reason (to be "interesting" to a prospective partner)

Bingo. I think that's the key to it - if you do it with the intent of getting something from someone, people will work that out pretty quickly and resent it. It comes over as being...greasy.

If it's done from the perspective of having genuine interest, care and empathy it makes it easier to work as a group.

Yep. There's people that want to keep distance at work and don't appreciate it. Just have to respect that and leave them to it.

Not the most manipulative but

Keep a log of the birthdays, hobbies and names of spouses and children of colleagues, managers, team members and customers.

I learnt this from a guy who did executive search. People remember you, when you remember what is important to them.

When I've lead teams it's one of the first things I find out - note down when someone says "yeah Gary that's my hubby, he's super into gaming"

• Gary (husband.)
• likes gaming

When you're a manager, your teams families, partners and friends know your name. Reciprocating that - learning who is important to them - is really important.

I honestly don't know. Maybe a carry over from print journalism?

Yes

However without experiencing the previous version of bad there isn't a frame of reference, so whatever bad experience is now is the bad experience