A thing I believed even before our whole working lives moved to video chat: the best way to end a video call is a sustained hand wave while hanging up. Clearly indicates you know you& #39;re on video but the call has concluded. It& #39;s not weird to cut off mid-wave https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👋" title="Waving hand" aria-label="Emoji: Waving hand">

One of the reasons it& #39;s so exhausting meeting on video is because there& #39;s no backchanneling - those nods, uh-hus, and looking at a person to let them know you& #39;re engaged. You& #39;re just pouring energy into a vortex. My guess: platforms that resolve this well can be market winners.

We& #39;re amazingly sensitive to our audience in face-to-face conversation. Turns in conversation happen so fast that even small amounts of lag through chat can be difficult to negotiate. There& #39;s a nifty little Language Log experiment on these time delays: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=47106 ">https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/...

I& #39;m grateful that @GretchenAMcC and I have had lots of practice at navigating time delays while recording @lingthusiasm - but for episodes we have the luxury of editing out the extra pauses we build in to give each other a chance to talk!