The Core #9: Meetings are for decisions

If there’s PowerPoint, I will cry

The Core is a limited series of concise principles, sharing the ideas that sit at the heart of everything I do.

A meeting is not a habitat. One should not live in them.

If it doesn’t end with a decision, it wasn’t a meeting, it was a group hallucination with a calendar invite.

Most things can (and should) happen asynchronously: status dashboards, shared docs, nods of digital agreement, all help you get focused work done. Synchronous work is fine too, just don’t call it a meeting if you’re actually getting something done. That’s called “working with people”.

And if someone invites you to a meeting with no clear purpose? Ask. If they can’t tell you, don’t go. You’re not an NPC in the main character’s calendar.