Notes on listening, language, and the things that get past us in meetings.
The bad board meetings are not the ones with arguments. The bad ones run on time, look polished, and produce no usable signal.
June 9, 2026 · 6 min
Most follow-ups are a recap nobody reads. The good ones do something different — they make the next decision easier.
June 2, 2026 · 5 min
Minutes record what was said. A decision log records what was decided, by whom, on what basis. Only one of those is useful three months later.
May 26, 2026 · 5 min
Most 1:1s are status meetings in disguise. Status belongs in writing. The 1:1 is for the conversation that can't happen anywhere else.
May 19, 2026 · 5 min
Most people take notes the wrong way. They transcribe. The point is not to record what was said — it's to record what was claimed.
May 12, 2026 · 6 min
Most bad meetings aren't bad in any spectacular way. They go wrong in four specific places, and nobody calls it out in real time.
May 4, 2026 · 6 min
The math errors and dodged questions that get past investors most often, and how to call them out without killing the room.
April 22, 2026 · 7 min
The role is older than the title. It exists because principals can't be in every room, and someone has to listen on their behalf.
April 10, 2026 · 5 min
Not the LinkedIn version of listening. The actual version, where you catch the thing nobody else heard.
March 28, 2026 · 5 min
Every AI tool now produces a meeting summary. They are mostly useless. The valuable artifact is something else entirely.
March 15, 2026 · 5 min