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My prediction on this: people will create videos, people will stop attending meeting because "I'll just watch the video offline", people will get crunched and n
by belval 3y ago
My prediction on this: people will create videos, people will stop attending meeting because "I'll just watch the video offline", people will get crunched and not watch the videos before finally re-scheduling meetings where the authors will step-by-step in the videos and present the content as we used to do with slides.
- mbrumlow 3y agoBefore any of that happens it will be renamed and branded so somebody can get promoted, closely followed with canceled to make way for the next big thing.
- Justsignedup 3y agoCynical but on point. My thought is I unfortunately don't trust Google for product launches because of exactly this. And I know anyone at startups might be thinking similar things.
- LordAtlas 3y agoAnd with Google's track record, eventually end up on KilledByGoogle.com
- vineyardmike 3y agoCynicism is generally warranted, but they have a pretty good track record with Workplace/GSuite products geared towards paying enterprises.
- soraminazuki 3y agoGoogle Domains and Jamboard come to mind.
- rkagerer 3y agoThey killed Postini to get there and lost me as a paying customer.
- Swizec 3y ago> people will create videos, people will stop attending meeting because "I'll just watch the video offline" This is why I have a strong “no recordings” rule for any meeting that benefits from back-and-forth conversation. Especially if it’s a knowledge sharing opportunity like an internal tech talk, brown bag discussion, or similar. Nothing sucks more than presenting a talk to 3 blank squares, getting no questions, and having 30 people ask for a recording. No.
- falcor84 3y agoYou can treat it as recording a YouTube video
- Swizec 3y agoI prefer to treat it like a small club standup session. These meetings are how you figure out what to put in the youtube video or other documentation. Audience questions are vital.
- nlawalker 3y agoDo you call them “brown bags” and “tech talks”? For a lot of people those terms imply a one-way presentation.
- Swizec 3y agoNot all feedback is explicit. Being able to see when you're confusing the audience helps a lot. Beyond that it depends on situation. Talk at a large conference is obviously one-way. Private talk to a "room" of 10 people who work with you on similar problems can be very interactive. The best ones are a low-fi 15min talk followed by a 45min discussion. Those 45min discussions are pure gold for a future large conference talk.
- jitl 3y agoThis is not the point of meetings though. Meetings are for Aligning Stakeholders or Collaborating Across Teams at least in my world. Do you regularly attend meetings to be an audience member?
- happysadpanda2 3y agoAt various places of employment, /some/ meetings have absolutely been just so. Nothing of day-to-day value was ever communicated in those meetings, and nothing of value was lost when I stopped attending them. Sprint Demos could also fall into this category if you squint, but at least there is a good chance you pick up something useful
- nlawalker 3y agoIt’s not always that there’s no value in what’s communicated; often it’s just that there’s not much value in attending live. Teams’ auto-transcription, and now Copilot auto-summarization, is great for consuming these presentations after the fact in a fraction of the time.
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- haliskerbas 3y agoMost companies I've worked at have had some form of that, yes.
- vundercind 3y agoSee also: newsletters of all sorts. I’m pretty sure everyone’s just using LLMs to write those now, and nothing of value was lost versus ten plus hours of actual human labor, since nobody reads them. [edit] I mean internal corporate newsletters. “What department X is doing!” OMG nobody cares unless they’re just reading it out of sheer boredom as a plausibly-work-related distraction during avoidance of doing actual work.
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- hightrix 3y agoThis sounds awful. Video is the worst way to consume anything technical, for me. Video tutorials and video code walk throughs are completely worthless for most things. I hope this is just another Google product that they shut down in a year and that it doesn't catch on.
- belval 3y agoThere will be a fast follow for video transcription and search in videos so that people end up creating videos that nobody watch but get indexed by some internal system and provide a concise 1-pager for human consumption that should have been the original work output anyway. /s
- esafak 3y agoYou're saying they're more promotions to be had??