Paul Graham on why meetings suck...

Manager vs makers schedules: the basic thesis being that the people who call meetings (managers) have a different type of schedule and different goals than 'makers' who see meetings as an interruption to valuable work time and/or flow. In other words it 'costs' the 'makers' more to attend a meeting than it does managers.

I'm posting this especially for Dr. T because we have talked about this subject a lot.

Perhaps this is also the reason that managers are so often viewed as antagonistic not just to the needs but the actual goals and/or productivity of workers.

Man is the animal that repeats...

( Extended riff on recent reading, re-reading, and the larger problem of repetition and memory. )

Further re: nostalgia

The Onion on running out of retro trends.