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Meetings are still like exams, if you can't craft a line of thinking on the spot it doesn't come off well. You don't need a final answer but you can't just an
by cube00 2mo ago
Meetings are still like exams, if you can't craft a line of thinking on the spot it doesn't come off well.
You don't need a final answer but you can't just answer "I don't know" otherwise you risk being slimed (shout out to anyone who still remembers "You Can't Do That on Television")
- vorticalbox 2mo ago“I don’t know but after this meeting I will find out and get back to you” Is an acceptable answer.
- alpha_squared 2mo agoIt's only an acceptable answer when used sparingly. The more often it's used, the more questions arise about your role in that meeting.
- gritspants 2mo agoI can see that. Personally, I use that for people who like to go down tedious rabbit holes and want to free up the rest of the attendees to go back to work.
- alberto467 2mo agoExactly, maybe there was no need to waste his time with the meeting, he could have been doing productive work instead
- MrToadMan 2mo agoPeople can also ask questions that it is unreasonable to expect people to know on the spot too and after a while the role of the questioner in the meeting can be questioned. :)
- shahhsuusi 2mo agoI find people’s on the spot reasoning abilities considerable worse than even cheap LLMs. This “fast” mentality is what causes stupid decisions because we need to “keep moving” (To where? Wrong meeting!) Answers, answers, decisions, decisions, quick, quick! next quarter In hindsight we need to do things differently. Answers, answer, quick quick! Time is of the essence! If you don’t start producing sound within 5 seconds we will all spontaneously combust!
- __MatrixMan__ 2mo agoI prefer to share a video, ask people to watch it, and have them send me questions. That way I can spend time preparing answers to those questions, and then then meeting can be about discussion, not information delivery or recall. Asking people to be conclusive on the spot is a recipe for acting on bad data. There are too many biases related to stature, they interfere with accuracy.
- contagiousflow 2mo agoWhy would they ask you when they can ask Claude then?
- apparent 2mo agoTrue, but only for things that that your colleagues don't expect you to know already. Remember the "I'll circle back" meme about Jen Psaki? This response can only be used sparingly before it's seen as a sign of underpreparedness/inability to do back-of-the-envelope thinking.
- deathanatos 2mo agoNot really, in any company I've ever worked. The answer is "accepted", in the sense that it won't get you fired. But the meeting plows on, and decisions are made in absence of the answer to the question! — and never revisited once the answer is known. And like 90% of the time it comes up, it's because the data contradicts the decision.