I don’t do meetings. I do tweetings.

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“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate” - Dave Barry

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Makes a lot of sense. Something the big corporates should be taking heed of - it seems the higher up the structure you go the larger percentage of your day is consumed by the one hour meeting! A lot of the concepts remind me of the strategies Ricardo Semler talks about in his book Maverick - a good read if anyone's interested.

Article makes reasonable (although not exactly new) arguments for running faster, leaner, less formal with fewer meetings and more emails.

What annoys me is the twitter part - who in their right mind would have any sort important technical discussions over twitter? Can you imagine discussing MySQL tweaks 140 characters at a time? Dynamic programming algorithms? I guess some people just like to hit every nail with a social media hammer.

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