When I'm in video meetings I become hyper aware that I'm on camera and it immediately diverts a bit of my focus to little social things:
- oh I'm not smiling!
- what's that on my face?
- my hair is sticking up
- did I just pick my nose?
Even if I turn off my cam view of myself I can't seem to get rid of it. Of course I have some of this awareness in real world meetings but in a virtual meetings it's like 10x. It makes trying to do any coding over a screen share almost impossible for me, my brain feels like it's being split in half doing too much at once. Luckily most peer coding is just the screen and voice, no cam. Except interviews, lol.
- oh I'm not smiling!
- what's that on my face?
- my hair is sticking up
- did I just pick my nose?
Even if I turn off my cam view of myself I can't seem to get rid of it. Of course I have some of this awareness in real world meetings but in a virtual meetings it's like 10x. It makes trying to do any coding over a screen share almost impossible for me, my brain feels like it's being split in half doing too much at once. Luckily most peer coding is just the screen and voice, no cam. Except interviews, lol.