Tag: meetings
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Disaster Zones
Teams has a fun “Decorate” feature that lets you quickly substitute in an AI-augmented version of your actual background, so… now the in-camera-view area of my home desk might also be a disaster.
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Totally Tabular
I wouldn’t be that surprised to see someone with literally hundreds of tabs open. Maybe a little impressed.
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Baseball Stats
Now I know a little about how the MVP voting works, and it is way more complicated than I expected.
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No Pressure
This did happen, but it was a pretty informal meeting overall, so if that wasn’t enough time for all the demos they could save one for the next meeting. So actually not much pressure.
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Last Meeting of the Day
Someone told me a story about the executive in their meeting being very generously willing to go over the scheduled time as it was their last meeting of the day, and they’re usually hard to get time with, but unfortunately that didn’t work for everyone.
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What Changed?
Just another great day that somebody got to have in meetings! (Thankfully not me.)
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Critical Features
All hands on deck to get a critical feature shipped.
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Anteater
So my sister tells us at a family gathering how she ate an ant and it turns out that they are sour and our dad adds very emphatically: “Oh yeah, ants are sour.” Excuse me, sir, were we just supposed to know that you already knew the flavor profile of ants?
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Dropping The Bomb
I remember when swearing in a large-scale meeting was really jarring, but now it’s like a sign of authenticity.
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Less Terrible
Inspired by an exchange that happened some years back. Surely we’ve percent-by-percented our way to better meetings by now, right?