How to Create a virtual “Water Cooler” in your workspace

There are 3 types of people.

• Those who view remote work as a beautiful rarity and mystery.
• Those who investigated remote work and believe it to be full of difficulty.
• Those who live remote work, and know how liberating it is.

Regardless of which you are, it’s not difficult to see several things are organically missing from remote work. One is the welcomed distraction. There’s no fortuitous crossing of paths, overhearing of conversations, and generally “Water Cooler” chat.

Offices, organically invite distraction from concentrated singular tasks… and sometimes that’s a good thing.

Is this really a thing?

Clarifying the issue brings it to light. Cubicles, headphones, and closed-door offices help people control their days in a commuting job. Remote work is like all those things ground up and infused with rocket-fuel. Once someone hits a stride with remote work, her distractions have all been eliminated, and this creates the new problem.

I’ve heard people call it “Cabin Fever”, but that’s not accurate enough. No, this is better named “Quarantine Fever”. Where isolation and dedication are secretly taxing remote workers from their social chemicals. These depletions are hard to identify, and usually manifest in some secondary symptom that leaves people with a palpable but inarticulate sting.

According to famed public speaker, Simon Sinek, positive social chemicals like Oxytocin help stave off addictive and selfish habits fueled by chemicals like Dopamine. In the lack of social chemicals, Dopamine addiction is more likely. It’s hard to imagine the effects of solitary confinement, but study after study shows how even the most introvert of us is still a social being.

With this knowledge, we need to be deliberate in energizing our remote work environment in a way that is productive and socially satisfying.

The “Water cooler” for Remote Work

The first step is the same for everyone. The other steps depend on your team and your path.

Step One:

Put kindness, humanity, and friendliness at the core of your remote work environment. Only 10% of it gets through, so you need to go above and beyond.

Digital interaction is low bandwidth. As a human being, we are programmed to read a person’s eyes, twitches, coloration changes, voice inflection, and hundreds of other interpersonal indicators. When you type a message of pure fact, the human on the other side gets exactly ZERO social context. It’s our job to center humanity in remote work. Some of the most successful remote workers I’ve met overflow with personality, and they do so as an effort of will. Cover your communication in context, emoji, and above all, clarity. Even over the phone, a person can hear a smile, what’s your digital smile?

People often feel that if they are too nice, they can’t be a boss, manager, or authority figure. That’s not true in remote work, because it’s easy to be strict and direct. But if all you ever have is cold communication, how would anyone know you mean business? The range in communication gives you this bandwidth. Otherwise, you’re actually just monotone… all the time.

So step one is to break that inflexibility. Your communication needs Yin and Yang, so be nice, blameless, and friendly at the core of everything you and your team do.

Step N:

Create events that fit your team. A “water cooler” is just an excuse for those who might be needing that interaction. We can make something better by putting ideas out there. A coworker might just say “sure”, but somewhere deep inside they are feeding their social need.

Since you’ve done Step 1, it’s just a matter of finding people willing to lead and innovate these novel ideas. We’re always looking for new ways to interact, but here are some great ones we do at Infinite Red.

• Book club
• Movie Night (using Netflix and NetflixParty.com)
• Webcam Quiplash
• Q&A Hour
• Webcam hangout room — (Kitchen Table)
• Secret Santa — Video unveiling
• Coworking space/activities — for those who want a little office structure
• Lunch and learn video presentations
• Lunchtime online games
• Bulletin Board —An open life-updates/highlights session in our official company meeting

We’d love to have even more. Each of these is optional. There’s no mandatory fun, or forced socialization because everyone is different. With a good spread of options, there’s little chance that someone is lacking their “water cooler” opportunity.

Do you have some you’d like to share? Add them to the comments. I’d love to hear what exciting things your company does to keep humanity centered in a remote culture.

Gant Laborde is Chief Technology Strategist at Infinite Red, a published author, adjunct professor, worldwide public speaker, and mad scientist in training. Clap/follow/tweet or visit him at a conference.

Timing windows to conduct projects in or around water

Time work in or around water to respect the timing windows identified below to protect fish, including their eggs, juveniles, spawning adults and/or the organisms upon which they feed. Timing windows may vary by province, species or watercourse.

Timing windows are one of many measures used to protect fish and fish habitat when carrying out a project near water. It is recommended you follow the measures to avoid harm to reduce impacts to fish and fish habitat.

Timing Windows

Time work to avoid the restricted activity timing windows in order to reduce the risk of harm to fish and fish habitat in Alberta:

Time work to occur during the appropriate timing window in order to reduce the risk of harm to fish and fish habitat in British Columbia:

• Marine/estuarine timing windows for the North Coast area and the South Coast and Lower Fraser areas.
• Freshwater timing windows for each provincial region (Government of British Columbia). For salmon species not covered by the freshwater timing windows, please contact the DFO regional office.

Manitoba

Time work to avoid the restricted activity timing windows in order to reduce the risk of harm to fish and fish habitat in Manitoba:

Time work to occur during the timing window in order to reduce the risk of harm to fish and fish habitat in New Brunswick:

• The summer low flow period from June 1 to September 30.

For more specific information on sensitive periods and a listing of the spawning and migration time periods, please refer to Watercourse and wetland alteration technical guidelines, Timing of instream Work (p. 25-27) and Appendix A (p. 114-117) (Government of New Brunswick).

Newfoundland and Labrador

To avoid impacts on fish in Newfoundland & Labrador, do not carry out in-water work:

• in estuaries and main stems of scheduled salmon rivers from May 1 to September 30 (migrating period)
• in tributaries and headwaters of scheduled salmon rivers on the island of Newfoundland from October 1 to May 31 (spawning, incubating and hatching period)
• in tributaries and headwaters of scheduled salmon rivers in Labrador from September 15 to June 15 (spawning, incubating and hatching period)
• in estuaries and the main stems of brown trout rivers from October 1 to November 30 (migrating period)

Scheduled salmon rivers are listed in the NL Angler’s Guide or in the Newfoundland & Labrador Fishery Regulations.

Brown trout rivers are listed in the NL Angler’s Guide.

Northwest Territories

Time work to avoid the restricted activity timing windows in order to reduce the risk of harm to fish and fish habitat in the Northwest Territories:

Time work in freshwater to occur during the summer low flow period to avoid sensitive life stages (egg and fry immobility) for the main salmonid species. There are some species with sensitive time periods during the work window – so take caution to avoid impacts if these species occur near your project area (e.g. juvenile rainbow trout).

• June 1 to September 30.

This timing window does not apply to estuarine/marine environments.

For further information, please contact the Dartmouth, Maritimes Region office.

Nunavut

Time work to avoid the restricted activity timing windows in order to reduce the risk of harm to fish and fish habitat in Nunavut:

Time work to avoid the restricted activity timing windows in order to reduce the risk of harm to fish and fish habitat in Ontario:

Timing windows identified on Conservation Authority permits or Ministry of Natural Resources (Government of Ontario) work permits may differ and take precedence.

Prince Edward Island

Time work to occur during the timing window in order to reduce the risk of harm to fish and fish habitat in Prince Edward Island:

• The low flow period from June 1 to September 30.
• Prince Edward Island watercourse, wetland and buffer zone activity guidelines (Government of Prince Edward Island)

Quebec

Time work to occur during the timing windows in order to reduce the risk of harm to fish and fish habitat in Quebec:

Time work to avoid the restricted activity timing windows in order to reduce the risk of harm to fish and fish habitat in Saskatchewan:

Time work to occur during the timing windows in order to reduce the risk of harm to fish and fish habitat in the Yukon:

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by DEMA · Published 15.04.2020 · Updated 25.04.2020

In Other Waters – игровой проект, разработанный в жанре песочницы, который отправит тебя на просторы научно-фантастического мира. Ты возьмёшься за исполнение довольно необычной роли – роли искусственного интеллекта, который был устроен в специализированный костюм драйвера. Твоя задача – погрузиться в масштабные просторы загадочного подводного мира и постараться пройти непростую миссию. События игры отправляют тебя на неизведанную планету, которую необходимо изучить и разгадать все ее тайны. Справиться с задачей будет не так уж и просто, ведь тебя ожидает ряд преград. Главное, что необходимо делать – это изучать локации вдоль и поперек, собирая различные полезные ресурсы и ценные предметы. Завораживающая атмосфера будет царить на протяжении всего времени приключения, что точно порадует любителей данного жанра. Игра наделена хорошим визуальным исполнением, что позволит тебе с новой окунуться в нее. Не обошлось и без линии сюжета, незаурядной и обладающей неожиданными поворотами событий.

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workon command doesn’t work in Windows PowerShell to activate virtualenv

I have installed virtualenvwrapper-win and when I try this command

In CMD it works, but not in Windows PowerShell.

In Windows PowerShell I have to do Scripts\activate.ps1 and then I get the envname before the prompt.

Can you please let me know how can I make workon command working in PowerShell?

6 Answers 6

workon is a batch script. If you run it from PowerShell it’s launched in a new CMD child process, doing its thing there, then exit and return to the PowerShell prompt. Since child processes can’t modify their parent you lose all modifications made by workon.bat when you return to PowerShell.

You basically have two options:

Rewrite workon.bat (and the other batch scripts it calls) in PowerShell.

Run workon.bat in without exiting from the CMD child process:

If you just want a shortcut workon that you can call directly from PowerShell you can wrap that commandline in a function and put the function definition into your PowerShell profile:

Use the scriptname with extension here to avoid infinite recursion.

The answer by Ansgar Wiechers technically works but it uses cmd which means you are basically using the cmd prompt from within PowerShell and you lose the additional functionality provided by PowerShell. You can modify the function above to the following:

This will allow you to continue to use PowerShell commands (that do not work in cmd such as ls ) in your virtual environment

This also assumes that your environments are saved in .\Envs. If they are elsewhere, then adjust the path in the function accordingly, or set the WORKON_HOME environment variable, see below.

If you have set the WORKON_HOME environment variable (which you should !), you can instead use:

Additionally, if you are not a Windows user (like me) and need help on where to put that function and how to get it to load when you open PowerShell. Here are some additional resources that helped me:

How to get PowerShell to autoload your module when it starts:

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Explore a procedural world with dangerous ocean depths and massive Titans in an Exploration Survival game that changes the way you interact with water.

Displace water with powerful crystals harvested from the world, delve into its depths to collect rare resources, build walls to contain the ocean or block the waves, and help the people rebuild from the constant destruction. Titans, artifacts from a dead civilization beneath the waves, roam the world causing destruction. Survive with what you can harvest from the land, trade with passing fishermen or at ports, and voyage across the world through deadly storms to find new adventures.

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• Online co-op
• Defeat Titans as large as an island and fight Golems as big as a house.
• Gather crystals and refine them into items which displace and deform the ocean revealing rich resources below.
• Build structures that interact with the world scale ocean simulation. Turn a valley into a lake or open the doors and flood the lowlands.
• Craft items to suit your play style whether it be farmer, explorer, adventurer.
• Build and customize your boat to handle Titans, rough weather, and local enemies.
• Massive world filled with procedural islands and unique biomes.
• Dynamic time of day and weather.

[Titans]
There are multiple types of Titans in the world. The most well known are the Turtle Titan, the Serpent Titan, and the Crab Titan.

• The Turtle Titan is difficult to damage and has a deadly range attacked. It roams the ocean causes massive waves that wash over islands and carry away anything in their path.
• The Serpent Titan likes to roam near storms and causes large whirlpools which suck anything above water. below. Since it swims below water, it can be difficult to attack.
• Little is known about the Crab Titan other than its not afraid to walk up onto dry land to attack humans and buildings directly. How do you even stop something the size of an island with 8 legs and made of ancient stone?

[The ocean sim]
The water in Breakwaters isnt just there to make waves. You can directly interact with it by crafting Refined Crystal items and building stone walls. Delve into its depths to find rare resources, build a wall to protect your home, or create a holding tank of water to supply your water pumps and power your contraptions.
There is over 360 kilometers of simulated ocean to explore, filled with unique places, strange creatures, and quirky people to meet.