10am and on. Communication's all about what is being received. Again. And it's about doing the right preparations based on the right documents, otherwise any related meeting needs the ability to improvise immediately. Which doesn't always work. (Some sort of training, possibly. Some sort of climbing the mountains that border ones comfort zone, but without any ropes or wires attached.)
11am and on. Meetings involuntarily cut to size. Leaves room to actually work on things worth meeting about. Also: Never underestimate the energy required to dig through ambiguous domain specific languages. At some point, things stop being what they seem to, to the uninitiated, and the best to probably happen is ending up a total fool just by choice of terminology. (Blame it on caffeine and multitasking. Or the model explaining things the wrong way. Putting things to creative use and all.)
(Der Morgen, auch: Wenn man zu einem hochwichtigen Termin lädt, den man vor Tagen schon mit allen Beteiligten final abgestimmt glaubte, und plötzlich Absage um Absage von den Leuten erhält, von denen die Wichtigkeit des Projektes ausgeht. Empfohlene Spiele: Prioritäts-Poker, Kalender-Tetris.)
3pm and on. Reviving a thread of project communication that fell asleep months ago - and yet apparently didn't lose its top priority ever since. Now, looking into retroactively finishing what remained open back then as fast as possible, to learn we still don't know. (Neither does the model, yet sometimes it feels like its responses are gaining a somewhat sarcastic overtone. But maybe it's just on the recipients side, as with all communication.)
10am and on. Current mode and mood: Unreliable multi-tasking. Too many open windows, too many of them emitting sounds. Getting back to polishing code in between, always reminded how long it takes to get back to it, once interrupted. Messages lost in transmission, meaning lost in inconsistent wording. There are many ways of misunderstanding and technology seems to have a tendency to make it even worse.