Reaching for your phone partway through people’s stories won’t kill them, granted. But they die a little inside. Does that count? At Doing What Works we think it does. And that’s why we’ve devoted this edition of the show to the fine art of giving others what we all crave, attention.

Here are your show notes…

“What is it like to be on the receiving end of desperate calls for help . . . every day?” You’ll find one woman’s answer in Answering 911 [https://www.amazon.com/Answering-911-Life-Hot-Seat/dp/0873516028].

“The day you realize that your efforts and rewards are not related, it really frees up your calendar.” That’s from Scott Adams [https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays].

“Twitter’s original name was ‘Sentence Contest.’” [https://twitter.com/ariscott/status/312674580022046720]