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I agree that people should care about what it is producing on their behalf, but as long as it looks like something, it's probably gonna fly—someone actually taking the time to read it is more of a hypothetical anomaly anyway.

I suspect the real problem is much more fundamental: the vast majority of work we do is bullshit, and nobody gives a fuck about any of it.

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If nobody is going to read it then just don't do minutes.

But in my experience these minutes are referred to later to see what happened in the past especially when something went wrong and then this garbage makes for really confusing results and can even get people accused for incorrect decisions. Especially because the full transcripts and recordings are usually expired.

Incorrect/misrepresented meeting minutes are a lot worse than none at all.

That's why I do read them and correct the assholes that just dump them on the email because I don't want to be accused later of saying or doing something I didn't do.

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