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Today's tip is to send show notes for your life.

Give people resources to follow up on interesting tidbits,

and you can extend the fun of gatherings well into the future.

Today's tip comes from a New York Times good list by Melissa Kirsch.

Just as show notes are often published right after a podcast airs,

she passes along her friend's suggestion of sending show notes after social get-togethers.

As she explains, the impulse is the same as with a

podcast. There are so many interesting things I want to follow up on. After your monthly brunch with

your college friends, after a family gathering, after a happy hour with your colleagues from your old job,

after a particularly lively sideline chat with other parents during your kids' softball game,

send an email or text with show notes from the time together.

Like show notes for a podcast, this would include annotated links to the various topics that came up

that you promised to send each other more information about.

The tented moisturizer that you swear by.

Everyone's favorite crockpot meals that you all mentioned when you are lamenting how sports practices make dinner prep hard.

A link to the poem about the child learning to swim that your

friend mentioned in conversation. The novel your colleague recommended that was based on the author's

experience of growing up visiting her mom in prison. You can compile all the show notes and email

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