You know when you lose your connection and both sides frantically try to call each other back and cross paths? Richard Wolpert has a new rule:
- if you initiated the call and it drops you call the other person back.
- if you received the call and it drops you just wait for the call back.
Pass it on.
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Everyone needs to read this. It seems like common sense to me, but it must not be. If the call is dropped, the initiator calls back. Duh…