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I went to these meetings I was asked to go to.
The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.
Now what's interesting is, if you listen to all the places that people talk about doing work, like at home, in the car, on a plane, late at night, or early in the morning, you don't find managers and meetings.
You find a lot of other distractions, but not managers and meetings.
But what's even worse is the thing that managers do most of all, which is call meetings.
And meetings are just toxic, terrible, poisonous things during the day at work.
Because meetings aren't work.
Meetings are places to go to talk about things you're supposed to be doing later.
But meetings also procreate.
There's often too many people in the meetings, and they're very, very expensive to the organization.
But instead, there's a long scheduled meeting, because meetings are scheduled the way software works, which is in increments of 15 minutes, or 30 minutes, or an hour.
So meetings and managers are two major problems in businesses today, especially at offices.
Today's Friday, usually people have meetings on Monday.
I met Andrew at one of our community meetings putting together Maker Faire.
Your calendar is already packed with meetings, sometimes double- or triple-booked.
I count the steps and the lampposts and all those things that visually impaired people have a tendency to have a lot of meetings with.
We go to meetings in the present tense; we go on family vacations in the present tense; we go to the polls and vote in the present tense.
We also like to innovate in our physical space, and we noticed in meetings, you know, you have to wait a long time for projectors to turn on and off, and they're noisy, so people shut them off.
And as a result, we were able to build some software that also lets us manage a meeting, so when you walk into a meeting room now, it lists all the meetings that are happening, you can very easily take notes, and they just get emailed automatically to all the people that were present in the meeting.
We also have a lot of engineers in those meetings, and they don't always do their laundry as much as they should.
In one of the first meetings that they had around this new system, he said, "If you're a writer, I want you to write about this.
And I realized when I'd come into the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars.
Usually I say no right away, but some of them come with pedigree and they sound well-intentioned and they get you for at least one or two meetings.
So just to take some quick examples: People text or do email during corporate board meetings.
They text and shop and go on Facebook during classes, during presentations, actually during all meetings.
In the meetings at Uber, it was not uncommon for people to be texting one another ... about the meeting.
It's all these one-on-one meetings for like four days.
I do a lot of meetings, you know?"
Well, if you work for a corporation, you'll discover it's quite difficult to work on stuff which your boss doesn't approve of, isn't in the strategy, and anyway, you've got to go through your monthly meetings.
There were maps and minutes from meetings where the parents were slagging each other off.
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