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The early morning meeting buzzed away, with updates to this and the launch of that. The queen of the Zoom hive went around the virtual room, asking specific and relevant questions. Could there be bigger, better, faster, brighter, more ... more ... MORE? Everyone said "yes" (as "yes" is the breakfast of champions), but Orren hesitated. He took a deep breath, looked down, looked back up, and then stretched his chin up as he slowly removed his tie. "Y'all," he said, shaking his head, "I can only hope we're more intelligent and emotionally savvy off-camera. More direct. More genuine. More truthful. Good luck, everybody; may Karma be gentle and may Fate be kind." Orren left the meeting after that, and left the company four minutes later. He was a one-on-one conversational kind of guy, and he was done with the party line.