Kleenex, Band-Aid, Aspirin, Zoom

A problem, but maybe one of those good problems. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

People of Earth, and readers of Understandably, we’re all Zoomers now —

Wait a second. I already started a newsletter like that recently. But in looking back at the study I wrote about Zoom earlier this month, I noticed something that could actually be a problem for Zoom.

Not like a “Zoom is going to shut down” kind of problem, but still.

Let’s cut to the chase. You might remember — or maybe you weren’t a subscriber yet — but a Stanford University professor, writing in the journal Technology, Mind, and Behavior, came up with four physiological reasons why Zoom calls are more physiologically taxing than in-person behavior.

I remember wondering at the time: Wait, is this about Zoom calls specifically? Or is this about any kind of video call: Skype, Google Meet, Cisco Webex, FaceTime—even Facebook Messenger Video )if anyone has ever actually used that)?

That led me to these two passages, first in the news release announcing the study:

Just as "Googling" is something akin to any web search,