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Re: Show HN: Meeting Stats – Show your boss how much of your life is in meetings

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Post by thrower123 »

rob-d wrote: post #35
bwb wrote: post #24

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I love that idea! We are talking to a lot of people in Product roles to do just that. Basically blocking times or days out with no interruptions, as well as giving them the insight to protect their teams so they can work.

That sounds interesting - got me thinking a little more about this. I wonder if simply by making the information available on when people are in flow state, a lot of flow state interruptions could be reduced, even without reducing the number of meetings. In particular, encouraging scheduling a meeting at the beginning / end of a flow state period rather than slap bang in the middle would have a big impact. For exampl…

How would you do this? Firstly, flow isn't really something you plan, it's more like, you get working on something and oh my god, it's 5:30 already? Where'd the day go?

Second, you can't just move meetings around, in my experience. Once something is scheduled, it calcifies; it's too much work coordinating time zones and schedules, and if you push something up, most people that were planning on it being later will be even more unprepared to discuss than usual.

Re: Show HN: Meeting Stats – Show your boss how much of your life is in meetings

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Post by thrower123 »

paulie_a wrote: post #40
tjoff wrote: post #33

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I mean if they can't even comply with GDPR (that awful popup) they obviously don't respect their users data to start.

While the creator replied saying they are compliant. There are a lot of services that quite frankly don't need to give a shit about GDPR. It's simply not relevant to every business.

Furthermore, there are a ton of users that don't know what the GDPR is and wouldn't give a shit if they did; they are just sick of clicking out of a spammy cookie popup on every website they go to.

Re: Show HN: Meeting Stats – Show your boss how much of your life is in meetings

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Post by tjoff »

thrower123 wrote: post #72
paulie_a wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While the creator replied saying they are compliant. There are a lot of services that quite frankly don't need to give a shit about GDPR. It's simply not relevant to every business.

Furthermore, there are a ton of users that don't know what the GDPR is and wouldn't give a shit if they did; they are just sick of clicking out of a spammy cookie popup on every website they go to.

You only need to have the spammy GDPR popups if you do unethical things.

People should be sick of unethical practices, not GDPR.

Re: Show HN: Meeting Stats – Show your boss how much of your life is in meetings

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Post by deaps »

Vinnl wrote: post #70
reaperducer wrote: post #41

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This is cool, but no way am I granting access to a years worth of calendar. I know everything has to be an online web "app" these days, but the privacy concerns could be completely eliminated by simply making this an actual computer program.

Because a computer program cannot send your private data elsewhere?

I don't think the fear is necessarily purposeful, malicious intent. I think it's more about accidentally storing something you didn't mean to or accidentally leaking something, with all of the best intents.

The OP seams sincere and honest, but leaks happen on projects with multi-million dollar security teams/budgets.

Re: Show HN: Meeting Stats – Show your boss how much of your life is in meetings

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Post by webwright »

This was (originally) exactly why we created RescueTime (YC08 - and still growing!). We'd sold a tiny/new startup that we'd created IN ALASKA to a large/overfunded startup (150ppl) in Seattle. We were convinced we were moving to the big leagues. Everyone would be so smart! We'd move 10x faster will the big league technology/processes!

The reality was pretty terrible-- I felt like the entire company spent all day writing emails, going to meetings, and updating wikis... Which seemed pretty scary for a company that hadn't figured out its own product yet. We wanted a big chart showing the allocation of time spend so we could show it the exec team and say, "Is this on purpose?"

The company ended up raising $50M and selling for less than $1M. The founder went on to create Fab.com, which raised $300M+ and sold for $15M.

Re: Show HN: Meeting Stats – Show your boss how much of your life is in meetings

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Post by StavrosK »

webwright wrote: post #76

This was (originally) exactly why we created RescueTime (YC08 - and still growing!). We'd sold a tiny/new startup that we'd created IN ALASKA to a large/overfunded startup (150ppl) in Seattle. We were convinced we were moving to the big leagues. Everyone would be so smart! We'd move 10x faster will the big league technology/processes! The reality was pretty terrible-- I felt like the entire company spent all day writ…

Sorry, I'm kind of confused by the timeline. Which company was which? You say RescueTime is still growing, but then said it was sold for $1M? I think I misunderstood.

Re: Show HN: Meeting Stats – Show your boss how much of your life is in meetings

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Post by quasse »

StavrosK wrote: post #77
webwright wrote: post #76

This was (originally) exactly why we created RescueTime (YC08 - and still growing!). We'd sold a tiny/new startup that we'd created IN ALASKA to a large/overfunded startup (150ppl) in Seattle. We were convinced we were moving to the big leagues. Everyone would be so smart! We'd move 10x faster will the big league technology/processes! The reality was pretty terrible-- I felt like the entire company spent all day writ…

Sorry, I'm kind of confused by the timeline. Which company was which? You say RescueTime is still growing, but then said it was sold for $1M? I think I misunderstood.

I think he's saying that he created RescueTime as a reaction to the experience he's detailing in the comment (post Alaska startup).

Re: Show HN: Meeting Stats – Show your boss how much of your life is in meetings

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Post by JoshMandel »

Very cool -- I love the focus and the amount of information you can glean from calendar analysis.

On this topic, since I joined Microsoft this summer, one of the off-the-shelf tools I've been most impressed with is the MyAnalytics dashboard (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/workplace-analytics/myanaly...) built into Office online. I like that in addition to meetings, it also summarizes time spent on email and time spent working outside of "business hours" -- and decorates each stat with benchmarks to compare with company averages.

I also appreciate the claim that "Only you have access to your MyAnalytics dashboard. MyAnalytics does not provide your manager or anyone else in your organization access to your dashboard." (Of course if push comes to shove, this is all company data, but I like that it's only shown to me by policy.)

Re: Show HN: Meeting Stats – Show your boss how much of your life is in meetings

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Post by thrower123 »

tjoff wrote: post #74
thrower123 wrote: post #72

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Furthermore, there are a ton of users that don't know what the GDPR is and wouldn't give a shit if they did; they are just sick of clicking out of a spammy cookie popup on every website they go to.

You only need to have the spammy GDPR popups if you do unethical things. People should be sick of unethical practices, not GDPR.

I dunno, we're six months into this now, and all I see as a result is a lot of fussing, a lot more cookie popups, and a meaningless sidechannel on comments for every side project or US local newspaper article posted here about how they haven't bothered with GDPR compliance and are somehow evil for using google analytics cookies without telling people.
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