Petri Kajander

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Dayana’s Best of Airchat

A room from Airchat's 2023 version, recorded as a video. The room's name is the title; the transcript below follows the video, and every time in it plays the video from that point.

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0:00 Some not so obvious advantages of air chat type of discussion is that you cannot interrupt people. Think about it. You just cannot. And that's an amazing thing. But it also is a preventative thing. Because those people who actually want to dominate, those who actually just want to roll over you and push their point of view, be rude. They cannot do it. So they may even avoid that type of discussion because they cannot take it over. This also helps people who are not so comfortable speaking instantaneously in real life chat where you have to respond immediately so you can take your time. But that's something I probably already mentioned.

0:58 And obviously it also gives the voice for those people who are not so powerful in real life situations dominating. So you can have more equal voices and measured discussions. Because many times if you have teams, the team dynamic is usually not representing the quality of the conversation. And this puts it in a completely different level. Maybe you also think more what you're going to say because it needs to stand on its own legs without the other qualities you can input to your output while speaking in a synchronous situation.