Why am I just now seeing this? Who is responsible?
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I’ve linked to this Seth Godin post about meeting efficiently before, but it was probably on Twitter. Here’s more than 140 characters worth…
I’ve noticed a typical script most meetings follow:
- Lots of time spent waiting on people to arrive
- Meeting then starts with people absent anyway
- Issues are identified and discussed relatively quickly by the folks who were on time
- Someone shows up late, and they inevitably want to rehash the issues that have been identified and discussed while they weren’t there.
- Issues beyond the scope of the meeting are raised, usually by one of the people who was late.
- At least one person feels the need to continue the meeting for the entirety of its scheduled time with “filler” material.
It all pays the same to me–just some things I’ve noticed over the last 15 years or so. What is strange is that this seems to be a relatively predictable situation, yet there haven’t been many attempts to correct it or make it more efficient.
Maybe if a fist fight or sumo wrestling match were scheduled to begin on time at the beginning and end of every meeting people would be anxious to get their on time and get the meeting over with as soon as possible?
I don’t know what the answer is, I’m just throwing ideas out there.
Head over to The Liberty Papers for a great explanation of inflation and what you may be able to do about it.
Quick synopsis:
- Higher prices are a result of inflation. The inflating occurs when the money is printed.
- Inflation has a trickle down effect…sort of like sewage. Those who are close to the money when it is printed, (for instance, people who get paid to build roads through the Stimulus plan) get to buy materials before prices rise, those who are further down the money food chain pay high prices.
- If you think you are poor and oppressed now, just wait.
The primary misconception of inflation is that it merely is the rise in prices. The news media encourages people to believe this, reporting the inflation rate in the same way it reports on changes in the weather, as if it is some natural phenomenon over which people have no control.
Definitely worth your time to read the entire article.
For Knoxville peeps, my friend Jen has a $50 gift certificate to the new Earth Fare store in Bearden to give away.
in celebration of the opening of their new Knoxville store on June 17th, Earth Fare gave me a $50.00 gift card to give away! Yeah, very cool. They just said, hey Jen – give this away for us.
All you have to do is leave a comment telling her why you’d like to win it.
I’m a little surprised this article on suburban survivalists doesn’t mention bullets at all.
“There’s so many people who are concerned about the economy that there’s a huge interest in preparedness, and it pretty much crosses all lines, social, economic, political and religious,” he said. “There’s a steep learning curve going on right now.”
It’s nice to have canned food and a generator, but veggies taste much better when they are a side item. If you are a serious suburban survivalist, it seems like you’d be stocking up on ammunition as well.
While you can still buy it.
Here’s a great post on How to Find Bugs in Giant Software Programs. Next week…how to find out how to use giant software programs.
Young people (like me) have better things to do at 11:30 on Saturday Nights…like sleep. We catch up on SNL much later online.
I was talking to @Mr_Schwartz this morning about the fact that Justin Timberlake is the first true triple threat entertainer since Dick Van Dyke.
Sure, Social Security has always been a Ponzi scheme, but it wasn’t always as bad as it is now.
One of the best posts I’ve read in a while. And it’s short too!
Cameron Stracher begins by talking about how running will become more popular during the down economy, but the article gets better as he drifts into talking about the blood and guts of running.
Every runner has a tale about a port-a-potty just missed, a coffee that wouldn’t stay down, a blister that burst and filled a sock with blood. We tell the stories with pride, metaphors for our own indomitability.
I’m so happy I’m (slowly) getting back into running. I’ve missed it.
From Bruce W. Sanford and Bruce D. Brown, a post that (not surprisingly) comes from a newspaper:
It is unrealistic to demand new business models from the press without giving it the legal tools to succeed
Wait…what? No one is “demanding” anything of newspapers. It basically comes down to this–if you want to survive, find a business model that works in the free market. If you can’t do that, you will die.
The only thing I’d demand is that they not use taxpayer dollars or legislative mechanics to get special treatment.
I wonder how low they have to go before she has her broom revoked.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released this afternoon found that the approval of how Pelosi is doing her job as speaker has dropped from 51 percent in January to 46 percent in March to 39 percent now.
via Pelosi’s approval rating plummets – Political Intelligence – Boston.com.
Maybe that’s an exaggeration, but click over to CouponKatie’s for tips on dealing with unpleasant cashiers who aren’t as excited about your coupons as you are.
…most people aren’t going to understand. That’s too bad, because if people were allowed to be greedy without limits, we’d all end up paying less.
Greed is worse than a moral defect; it is a cause of foolish pricing. That is why markets know it when they see it. And when markets are allowed to operate, greed generates its own punishment.