It’s one thing to have lots of meetings in a single day. But it’s something else to have lots of meetings in different places.<\/p>\n
This morning I had to cut short a phone meeting, so I could travel to Brooklyn for a sit down meeting. Then I had to end that meeting in time to attend a talk.<\/p>\n
I needed to leave that talk before the Q&A was over so I could travel back to Manhattan where I was scheduled to give<\/i> a talk. Then I needed to leave that event in the middle so I could get back to our lab for a weekly production meeting.<\/p>\n
Finally I left the lab to meet with an old friend, which doesn’t really count as a meeting because we had dinner. And besides, he is an old friend.<\/p>\n
I have had other days with more meetings than this, but there is a qualitative difference. When you need to physically travel between meetings from one place to another, actually transport your body through space and time, the whole “meeting filled day” thing definitely feels crazier.<\/p>\n
I thought the Internet was supposed to fix all that. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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