This is Eatsleep Workerpeat, a podcast about workplace culture. Hello, I'm Bruce Daisley.

Interesting episode for you today. It's an interesting disclosure to kick off with. There's a lot of

things I really enjoyed about Kate Murphy's book, why we click. It's a sort of exploration about

communication about how we fall into synchrony with each other.

What I liked, Kate's a journalist who's written on a wide range of topics for news

publications around the world, and she brings an appetite for discovery to her books.

She sort of does her research, she tries to get inside different topics.

This book, like I say, is about how to get in sync with other people. And we've probably never needed that more. The idea that we

need to try and sort of reform our understanding of how to get connected with other people has

never been more important. She says some things in there that

a few of us might flinch at. She says, for example, that we can only get in sync with people

face to face. Now, obviously, that's got huge implications for the way that we do work and where we do

work. Effectively, she says any other communication is sort of impoverished. It doesn't really work the same.

We've witnessed it, but it's just interesting for her to articulate it. And I can handle her

perspective on that. I've seen other things that make me think I don't wholly agree. If you've ever

watched online gamers playing and chatting to people through headsets, you can see they're totally attuned with

each other and they're in total synchrony. There's a total connection. There's a humor. There's a

warmth. There's a full connection. You might say that that's audio connection and that she says

that that isn't as bad as video connection. I don't know, but it suggests to me that technology isn't necessarily this impervious

barrier that we can't form connections with.

So, you know, I've got some questions there.

Eventually, though, the book goes a little bit woo-woo.

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