10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings • Hacker News Board

Re: 10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings

#31

Post by kevando » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 3:11 PM UTC

callum85 wrote: post #30

kevando wrote: post #5

I love this - for more than any other reason - because I can't tell if it's a joke or not.

I can't tell if this comment is a joke or not.

Is this a safe place? Can I admit that I actually use some of these? Actually, lets back it up; I need to draw a venn diagram.

Re: 10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings

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Post by Thekiks » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 3:15 PM UTC

sadly, all of these would/do actually work in the blue-chip firm where I work. I think it's time to resign...

Re: 10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings

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Post by bamboo_7 » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 4:17 PM UTC

fjcaetano wrote: post #29

darylfritz wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hmm.... lawyers..... from your divorce...... to figure this ooouuuuuuuuttttt....

triiiimmm hold on, I have to take this call

While he's doing that, could you go back a slide for just a second? I didn't get what those numbers meant.

Re: 10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings

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Post by egoebelbecker » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 5:20 PM UTC

#11. Skip meeting. Actually get work done.

Re: 10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings

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Post by pizza » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 5:44 PM UTC

bitJericho wrote: post #7

But does this scale?

my keyboard silently weeps

Re: 10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings

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Post by cema » Wed, Jul 16, 2014, 1:19 AM UTC

Shish2k wrote: post #28

Thing is, some of these are genuinely useful and smart things, in very specific contexts :P To paraphrase a recent experience of my own, a manager calling a meeting with the dev team "we need to re-arrange the javascript in our headers" "step back a bit, what problem are we trying to solve?" "pages need to load faster, rearranging headers makes pages load faster" "step back a bit, why do they need to load faster? Why…

  some of these are genuinely useful and smart things,
  in very specific contexts

This is why one using them appears smart, I would think. Sometimes more than just appears.

Re: 10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings

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Post by yeezul » Wed, Jul 16, 2014, 4:14 AM UTC

bamboo_7 wrote: post #33

fjcaetano wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

triiiimmm hold on, I have to take this call

While he's doing that, could you go back a slide for just a second? I didn't get what those numbers meant.

Allow me to draw a Venn diagram for a better representation.