A timely NPR conversation about loneliness and the importance of weak or loose social connections with those peripheral people who 'pepper our lives'. hubs.ly/H0qjsBq0

"When you’re speaking to a muted room, it’s eerie and unnatural — you feel alone even if you can see other people’s faces. You lose all of those spontaneous reactions that keep a conversation flowing.” – Matt Mullenweg, CEO at Automattic hubs.ly/H0qjTKt0

"Going from good to great lighting while on a Zoom or other video call is made easier with some conscious furniture moves." – John Maeda, Chief Experience Officer at Publicis Sapient hubs.ly/H0qjrf90

Company: Novum Energy Employees: 65 Offices: 4 Locations: Houston, Mexico City, Bogota & Buenos Aires “We needed a directory that everyone had access to but was updated by one person so it was always up-to-date.” – Chris Scott, CFO at Novum. 🌎🛢️🚚 hubs.ly/H0qD2Nj0

We're hiring a Digital Marketing Designer: behance.net/joblist/74313/… P.S. Excellent surprise to discover job listings on Behance are free for 60 days. Little gestures like these: 👌👌👌

The Italian island of Sardinia has more than 6X centenarians as the mainland and 10X as many as North America. Why? According to longevity researcher Susan Pinker, it's their emphasis on close personal relationships and face-to-face interactions. hubs.ly/H0qgbLN0

We're hiring a DevOps engineer: There's a lot of important work to be done in the coming months and we're looking for the right pair of hands to help drive it. Cue bat signal. 💻🚀👋🦇 #devopsjob #DevOpsEngineer #remotejob hubs.ly/H0qS9gK0

Results from the NFX VC & Founder COVID-19 Sentiment Survey, Part II: "Nearly 74% (of startups) now plan to be majority or fully remote (after Shelter-in-Place)" 🏡 hubs.ly/H0rjj220

"As teams begin to scale, it’s only natural that communication suffers first." Jacques Blom wrote about five practices our developer team introduced to stay aligned through rapid growth – including pair programming and learning in public. hubs.ly/H0sKb9Q0 HT OfferZen

Last month, we conducted some research that exposed a link between remote working productivity levels and employee visibility: 64% of those who don’t feel visible have experienced a productivity drop since working from home. 💻 hubs.ly/H0t5QWh0.

"A great team culture is the root to success for most software teams, it cannot be ignored." Get insights on 10 Common mistakes of first-time tech leaders from our VP of Engineering, Tanaka Mutakwa hubs.ly/H0t5PB40

"The incoming productivity drop has not been felt yet as employees are currently burning through the social capital they accrued while working in the same physical location as their colleagues." – Names & Faces co-founder, Richard Arscott in Just Entrepreneurs hubs.ly/H0tlS4B0

We're partnering with TEAM ALFA SEC to host an event for the #IFS2020 community this month: Managed Serendipity: Facilitating Inclusive Virtual Connections that Count If you're part of or run a fellowship, join us on Zoom – Aug 19, 2020 12:00 PM 💻👋🌎 hubs.ly/H0tl-C30

“Being able to recognise someone, say thank you, and add their name on elevates that thank you fivefold. It is such a secret weapon, isn’t it, to know someone’s name." – Andy O’Callaghan, Head of People at Dishoom 🥘 hubs.ly/H0tlWH-0

Like much of the world, we’re working from our homes. Names & Faces was a distributed team with feet on the ground in Cape Town, San Francisco, and London – now, we’re fully remote. Here are some ways we make our @zoom_us calls more human. 💻 hubs.ly/H0t5NXc0

Last week, Rob Burger joined the Names & Faces Dev Ops team. This called for custom backgrounds on Zoom for Friday drinks = onboarding in the time of COVID-19. Great to have you aboard, Rob. 🍔💻

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How many people can you remember? "Chances are, there are about 150 people whose names and faces you can remember without a prompt — and a hell of a lot more acquaintances that would come to mind with the right encouragement." – Mona Chalabi hubs.ly/H0tBwb00

"Employees are currently burning through the social capital they accrued while working in the same physical location as their colleagues, but this cannot power remote working indefinitely." hubs.ly/H0t5NXv0

How can we create serendipitous connections in a COVID-19 world? We discussed this topic with impact fellowship managers in a webinar co-hosted with @IREXintl. If you manage a fellowship – sign up for #IFS2020, Oct 27-29 to continue the conversation. hubs.ly/H0vG-_W0