Tweet of the Day (Taylor Kay Phillips, on the Phrase ‘Just So I Understand…’)

“Literally no one understands something more completely than a woman in a meeting who starts a question with ‘Just so I understand…’”— Emmy-Award winning writer and comedian Taylor Kay Phillips, tweet of May 15, 2023

Quote of the Day (Chris Rock, With Good Advice on Meetings)

“I have this belief: Always eat before a meeting. Even a lunch meeting….Because hungry people say things they regret.”—Actor-comedian Chris Rock quoted in Mitchell Jackson, “Chris Rock's Plan for Immortality,” Esquire, May 2021

(This photograph of Chris Rock was taken by Luigi Novi in June 2004 at the New York City premiere of Spike Lee’s She Hate Me.)

Quote of the Day (Virginia Heffernan, on the Horror of Meetings)

‘‘ ‘Meetings’’’: The very word is enervating. With the freedom to peaceably assemble so high up on America’s founding priority list, you’d think that the workers of the free world would gather with more patriotic vigor, just as we speak, bear arms and pursue trials by jury. Instead, the spirit in which we come together, almost hourly in some professions, is something closer to despondency. Fifteen percent of an organization’s time is spent in meetings, and every day, the transcontinental conference room known as the white-collar United States plays host to 11 million meetings...One study mysteriously calculates that the nation wastes more than $37 billion in ‘unproductive meetings.’’’ —Virginia Heffernan, “Meet Is Murder,” The New York Times Magazine, Feb. 28, 2016