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Ha! The famed meeting that could have been an email. I'm lucky to have only one of those a year, but it's right now.
Also luckily, nowadays it's on Teams, so I can do something else in the meantime.
The only trick is that it's in Japanese (and the speaker speaks fast) and it's difficult to only vaguely pay attention in the unlikely event I'm mentioned (my level of Japanese only allows me to "do my best to try to understand as much as possible" or "completely tune out and it just becomes noise" nothing in between)

#meetings

"Hey, sorry I'm 40 minutes late, I'm going to ask several questions that were answered in the basic talk, asked anyway by other people and answered again, and still misunderstand the concept of 'date'."

It's probably a good thing these are all virtual across multiple companies, because my eyerolls would be making enemies...

"This should be a short webinar" did not take into account the number of people who seem confused about the concept of a 'Document Date', a required element we all have to put on the cover page and title page of the documents...

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The magic happens when you flip the script:

✅ Share routine updates in writing in advance
✅ Spend live time together engaged in collaboration, risk raising, needs meeting, and blocker clearing
✅ Update on the attainment progress of measurable goals -- not just subjective estimates of completion of activities
✅ Get curious, and comfortable with healthy conflict, to create space for genuine learning.

This isn't theory. It's what transforms the organizations I work with.

#Meetings

→ Please Stop Inviting AI Notetakers to #Meetings
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

“A critical thing that #AI notetaking lacks […] are the non-verbal cues from the speakers," [Margaret Mitchell, chief #ethics scientist at Hugging Face] says.

“The tech-booster answer to that problem might be to get AI notetakers to incorporate visual processing as well. "But then we’re at the #surveillance issue," she says — and your harried Monday morning visage becomes another data point to count #against you.”

What if Rihanna worked in IT?

Please just stop the meetings
Please just stop the meetings
Please just stop the meetings
Please just stop the meetings

It's gettin' late, I'm dead tired and it's only early afternoon
I gotta get my body moving, shake the stress away
I wasn't expecting another one when an invitation got my way
Possible pain in the arse, yeah