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August 08, 2005
The function of meetings
Another entertaining essay from Paul Graham, the link to which Roch sent around. Paul explains a bunch of things, including the function of meetings:
Per capita, large organizations accomplish very little. And yet all those people have to be on site at least eight hours a day. When so much time goes in one end and so little achievement comes out the other, something has to give. And meetings are the main mechanism for taking up the slack.
Hmm. Don't tell anyone else. It's funny how most of the people around here who really go to lots of meetings take the laptop with them. They're busy doing the other activity big organizations use to soak up the time you spend as a presence in the office: email.
As though there were not enough time in the day to do all the non-work we have to do, let alone the work that would actually be valuable to someone.
Posted by Mark at August 8, 2005 09:40 AM