Reasonable People #54 : Two phenomena which derail useful meetings, and thoughts on how to tame them.
Way back when, I similarly mused about *accountable shared ground* as the thing that big org meetings produce and that make them unavoidably boring. https://speakerdeck.com/codingconduct/un-boring-meetings
Actually working at Amazon and participating in those briefing-before-talking kinds of meetings, I really like it as a practice and recommend!
This is great. I hadn't thought about accountability before, but your slides make a convincing case that this is a crucial part of the story
Re bananas: that statement doesn’t have much meaning but even interpreted charitably it doesn’t seem to be true https://lab.dessimoz.org/blog/2020/12/08/human-banana-orthologs
Thanks for the fact-check Ruben! I've edited to post to try to convey the same meaning without offending the truth
I’d like to restate the obvious, but it isn’t obvious to me where to start.
Way back when, I similarly mused about *accountable shared ground* as the thing that big org meetings produce and that make them unavoidably boring. https://speakerdeck.com/codingconduct/un-boring-meetings
Actually working at Amazon and participating in those briefing-before-talking kinds of meetings, I really like it as a practice and recommend!
This is great. I hadn't thought about accountability before, but your slides make a convincing case that this is a crucial part of the story
Re bananas: that statement doesn’t have much meaning but even interpreted charitably it doesn’t seem to be true https://lab.dessimoz.org/blog/2020/12/08/human-banana-orthologs
Thanks for the fact-check Ruben! I've edited to post to try to convey the same meaning without offending the truth
I’d like to restate the obvious, but it isn’t obvious to me where to start.