157 GID How to Use the Phone Better
Modern Mentor
Macmillan Holdings, LLC
4.3 • 726 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2010
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Telephones are everywhere, yet the quality hasn't been poorer for decades. When you have to call someone, use land lines when clarity and connection quality is most important. If you must use a cell phone, take precautions against wind noise, talking volume, and dropped signals.
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| 0:00.0 | Stevea Robbins here. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more. |
| 0:08.6 | Richard Gunther of the Richard.js blog recently posted a rant about telephones. |
| 0:13.9 | This episode is inspired by him. |
| 0:16.5 | I just love communication technology. |
| 0:19.2 | No, I don't. |
| 0:20.5 | I hate communication technology. Not always, of course, just mostly communication technology. No, I don't. I hate communication technology. |
| 0:22.9 | Not always, of course, just mostly. |
| 0:25.1 | Like when to find Melvin to arrange a bowling trip. |
| 0:28.6 | We've been friends for years, and I still need his business card to remember his three email |
| 0:33.4 | addresses and six phone numbers. |
| 0:35.5 | I just leave voicemail on his cell phone, his workline, |
| 0:38.0 | and his Skype account. Then I text his home and work cell phones and email his public email |
| 0:43.1 | address, his private email address, and his school alumni address. Sometimes he calls back. |
| 0:48.6 | This is progress. Communication technology does not help us get things done. |
| 0:56.2 | Communicating helps us get stuff done, but technology is now often in our way. |
| 1:01.7 | We use it the wrong way. |
| 1:03.2 | Breaking up over text message? |
| 1:04.9 | Tacky, really tacky. |
| 1:07.4 | Sure, breaking up in person might be dangerous. |
| 1:10.5 | What if my soon-to-be-X is holding a bottle of nitroglycerin and accidentally drops it in shock? |
| 1:15.6 | Well, right. Come on. That only happens once every two or three breakups. Not a big deal. |
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