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Part 32904 in the continuing saga of "my stand-ups suck, so all stand-ups suck".

Sorry, not even going to bother with non-snark response. I did that the 32903 times before, and someone else already took the bait.

But I'll bite on this though:

> All meetings are terrible.

Meetings can be awesome. I've been to meetings full of great new ideas. I've been in meetings that saved companies. I've been in meetings in which shit was actually decided and followed up on!

I've been in meetings that lasted for days(!) but eliminated months of painful processes and left people feeling exhausted but victorious.

Meetings can be great. Meetings can be fun. Meetings can have a purpose. Meetings can have results. Meetings can change the world.

It's badly organized, forced and unproductive meetings with the wrong people that suck. Guess what, that applies to virtually any activity with a group of people. Including orgies. Especially orgies.

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I think there's a No True Scotsman effect at work here: "meeting" is the general abstract superclass used to refer to "people talking at a table." However, "meeting" has some very useful subclasses--for example, debate and negotiation. Real things get done in debates and negotiations. But people don't think of those at "meetings", per se, so "meeting" gets stuck with all the negative connotations and none of the positive ones. (In est, a useful meeting is not a True Meeting; it's something else.)