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Bringing a new family tradition to zoom meetings

It’s easier than walking out of a theater

For better or worse, most evenings, my family spends a chunk of time between dinner and sleep in the family room with a video on the big screen and each of us with a laptop on their lap.

Sometimes, perhaps often, maybe even nearly always, the video is not worth watching, and afterward, everyone says so.

We don't leave early.

We don't walk out of the theater.

We've decided to start a new family tradition where anyone can ask, “I'm not enjoying this video; is anyone else?” If no one says they are, we are going to skip the rest of it.

I think it will work wonders.

But the real question is how to bring this tradition to recurring .

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Written by Russell Brand

Entrepreneur in residence at Founder Institute, he has mentored, performed due diligence on and invested in numerous early stage companies. Hundreds of these early stage companies have described Russell’s insights and advice as the most useful thing in the history of their companies. He has always had an inborn ability to find more valuable uses of new ideas and faster ways to achieve results.

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