Serenity Second Year

This semester feels a lot chiller than Core because...

• Incorporate additional "thank you" shout outs, emoticons, and exclamation points into emails instead of just thinking them
• Respond to meeting availability requests ASAP... last responder is almost invariably the rotten egg (doodle works better in theory than in practice)
• Evoke 80-20 payoff to effort with reckless abandon (at the end of the day, no one's life is contingent on their grade in [insert course name here])
• Cancel meetings that have no agenda instead of pleading emergency and backing out at the last minute
• Don't attribute ownership to ideas, that way no one takes the ego blow when something gets jettisoned
• Don't wait for quorum to arrive to start
• Do things over lunch rather than instead of lunch
• Do not join teams because you think you can see sexual/intellectual arbitrage opportunities (more on this in the coming Fifteen)