No One Cares How You Look on Zoom

Along with a few other tips to make video less painful

Michael Thompson
Index
Published in
5 min readJan 29, 2021

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Screen of multiple work colleagues on video call
Photo: Alistair Berg/DigitalVision/Getty Images

I clicked on the Zoom invitation and was taken to a black screen. Moments later, I heard a voice: “Michael, what’s up?”

For the next 30 minutes, my friend, Austin Belcak, and I talked in darkness about life and career advice. Prior to wrapping up the call, I asked him about not including…

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Michael Thompson
Index
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