Time & Knowledge

We need to have a convo about time zones and knowledge blindness.

As long conference calls have been a thing, people have done a math calculation in their head, played Calendar Tetris™, and tried to schedule meetings for when other people are available.

People did this because team members or entire organizations were not in their time zone, not the same city, state, or country.

They were distributed — remotely — to places elsewhere.

Knowledge blindness is a tendency of experts to overlook details, complexity, and ambiguity. It can lead to over-confidence and an over-developed sense of safety.

Coordination, collaboration, and productivity has involved conference calls for at least 3 decades.

It’s safe to remember that Zoom calls without video involved a mental calculation: because offices were already remote.