StorageJockey

Deputy Chief Technology Officer @ NetApp but all tweets are my own and not those of my employer.

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Researchers recently studied the impact of meetings on our brains. The results were fascinating…

Microsoft's Human Factors Lab studied 14 participants across two days of video meetings.

Day 1: 4 back-to-back 30-min meetings.

Day 2: 4 30-min meetings with 10-min breaks in between.

Participants wore EEG caps to monitor electrical activity in their brains.

The takeaways:

1. Back-to-Back Meetings Promote Stress

Back-to-back meetings created an accumulating buildup of stress in the brain. The anticipation of transitions caused further spikes.

Short breaks in between meetings allowed the brain to reset and never experience the stress buildup.

2. Breaks Promote Performance

Back-to-back meetings resulted in negative levels of frontal alpha symmetry, a brain state connected to lower levels of engagement.

Short breaks in between meetings resulted in positive levels, meaning participants performed better.

The answer seems to be that short breaks in between meetings are necessary:

• Eliminate stress buildup
• Improve performance
• Reduce impact of attention residue

I've implemented 25-minute meetings into my schedule and immediately noticed a positive impact.

Try it and let me know what you think!

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15 minutes to go. Speaking at the #CDW Executive IT Summit on the Evolved Cloud. Helping organizations achieve #simplicity, #Security, #Sustainability , and #CostSavings across their hybrid multi-cloud landscape.

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Check out my latest article: Cash or Cache Cloud? Cloud Journey Series https://t.co/foPvUbTNvQ via @LinkedIn

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@TheMattKershaw @phoebegoh @Knieriemen @GYWPodcast @NetApp This was a lot of fun and just watched it again at #netappinsight https://t.co/yGpHHilmHJ

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Excited for #netappinsight BOOM! It's gonna be amazing!

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Talon / Azure NetApp Files Deployment https://t.co/lJkvPqg9fC

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NetApp & Spot Deliver Application Driven Infrastructure - https://t.co/ANyQpOWvDU https://t.co/rgNziKPnor

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NetApp to bolster cloud services with latest acquisition | https://t.co/wt7e7yxuc0 https://t.co/KNrY4QZqep

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Data Privacy Vs. Data Security: What You Need to Know @NetAppCloud https://t.co/FgMb44Gojo

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Google Cloud Disaster Recovery and Data Protection with Cloud Volumes ONTAP @NetAppCloud https://t.co/4FSVpCV7BO

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Unlock the Power of Windows Virtual Desktop (JW) @NetAppCloud https://t.co/chgGeP37Gw

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Digital Transformation Requires DevOps, Now More than Ever @NetAppCloud https://t.co/RC4NQNOFOL

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Go from Day-0 to Hero with Ansible @NetAppPub https://t.co/JeCLDcxK5r

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AWS S3 Security: Getting More Secure Data Storage on Amazon S3 @NetAppCloud https://t.co/1Vzx2ojJ0H

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How NetApp IT Uses Microservices to Access Data from Monolithic Systems @NetApp #DataDriven https://t.co/1qNKYalTlX

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Google Cloud Persistent Disk Virtual Image Creation @NetAppCloud https://t.co/Web6I9GNpW

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How Does the Cloud Tiering Service Architecture Work? @NetAppCloud https://t.co/FGSjZGFTSs