On meetings

The original appearance of this entry was in Danny Weitzner - Open Internet Policy

Ever the astute observer of the various features and bugs of our collective behavior, a longtime mentor of mine, Mitch Kapor, has coined a new defintion:

Meetingboarding: (n) the sensation of being unable to breathe arising from continuous immersion in meeting after meeting

I’d add to this a characterization of email that I learned from Mitch many years ago:

The problem with email is that it has low emotional bandwidth.
-Mitch Kapor, circa 1991