I could have the ring halfway to Mordor by now.

My favorite feature of Zoom is automatically ending the meeting after 40 minutes.

Don’t forget the 4 emails to plan the meeting. The meeting to discuss the plan for the meeting. The meeting to ensure everyone is ready for the meeting. Then the actual meeting. Now you have the follow up emails. The debrief meetings to discuss the meetings. The take away to follow up on from the meeting. The meeting to discuss the follow ups.

All while the whole thing could have been a 2 sentence message in teams. With a 3 word response.

I tend to find them useful for taking nebulous, multi-faceted situations and turning them into a better understanding of what's going on and then determining actual actions.

As in "different customers want us to do different things, some of which overlap, some of which take ages, some of which are quick, some of which take a load of work to even understand, and who have we got ready to tackle this stuff?"

The meeting takes a while and melts everyone's brains by the end, but the result isn't loads more long meetings.

Perhaps it only took 90 minutes, but it felt like days went by, just like many meetings.

It’s a reminder that corporate owns you and will do whatever it wishes with your time

Wait, What is a rundown?

Yeah. If you prepare a meeting, write it as a email. Then use that as base.

Those same meetings, always:

“So does anyone have any suggestions, ideas or feedback?”

Fucking don’t, it’s a trap.