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Meetings Foul and Meetings Competent
seanessay.com (under 1,000 words—until David Bowie footnotes) If tomorrow I was at a “gathering,” be it a community centre meeting, workshop, wedding reception, poetry recital, dinner party, two day business retreat, three day conference— OK, I’ll stop brainstorming now. Then I might be a timid wallflower; I would keep silent even as I saw things […]
Hoverboards in New London
seanessay.com Leaping from a prompt, falling down, down a rabbit hole, while writing to see what happens… at Free Fall Fridays. prompt- Thinking box “You are thinking,” he said ponderously “inside the box.” We were in the boardroom and BJ Edison, the CEO, was addressing all his senior and middle executives. I traced a box […]
Debrief on a Zoom Meeting
seanessay.com Inspiring bedside reading: The Art of Gathering subtitled How we meet and why it matters by Priya Parker: A reminder that, as my college teacher for “how to run a meeting” told us, “You can be competent, or you can be incompetent.” Ms Parker is delightfully competent. I wrote this “essay-report” about 24 hours […]