Friday, April 14, 2023
Sunday, April 9, 2023
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Breaking History by Jared Kushner
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Power, Faith, & Fantasy, America in the Middle East 1776 - 2011 by Michael Oren
"I am not a great man. I am a failure, and you have made me one." --Jimmy Carter to Yasir Arafat, July, 2000.
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Meetings according to devth
Proposed Meeting Hygiene Workflow
Quotas
max 10 hours per week for individual contributors (ICs),
20 hours per week for managers.
New meetings that exceed this quota forces an existing meeting to be deleted before a new meeting can be accepted.
Automated meeting follow-up workflow
All participants anonymously rate how effective the meeting was [1-5] for their individual purpose.
All participants answer "This could have been a Slack thread." [Y/N].
Automated Meeting Scheduler workflow
Includes a mandatory checkbox: "we tried to resolve this issue on Slack" before booking.
Forbids creating a meeting without an agenda and associated Notes doc.
Verifies that the meeting notes include at least one task is created
Warns if number of tasks and assignees is disproportional to number of participants
Forbids creating a meeting with more than X participants; requires manager approval
Calculates and displays meeting cost in the description and notes doc
Requires mandatory inclusion for the reason each participant is invited
Adds meetings coach approver or manager approval to restrict meeting creation for organizers who score low on meeting effectiveness.
A Zoom meeting will always be much less effective and much less enjoyable than meeting in real life. Let's stop pretending otherwise.