Each time you connect to people bring them a blessing; then they’ll be happy to see you when you bring them a problem. - Kevin Kelly

Long ago I learned that even the most inanimate things we know of — stone, iron columns, copper pipes, gravel roads, a piece of paper — won’t last very long without attention and fixing and the loan of additional order. Existence, it seems, is chiefly maintenance.

When speaking to an audience
pause frequently. Pause before you say
something in a new way
pause after you have said something
you believe is important
and pause as a relief
to let listeners absorb details.

To speed a meeting up, require that any person who speaks must say something no one else in the room knows.