Here's a controversial opinion.

I have hot takes.

I rarely share them.

Today I'm going to.

Meetings.

Are you ready for this?

Meetings are great.

Now I know what you're thinking.

Meetings are awful. And I've been in some awful meetings, so I hear you.

I know where you're coming from.

If you go to Twitter, where I spend some time each day, and check out the hashtag meetings suck,

I can tell you right now, you will find a lot of information about bad meetings. People's very serious thoughts,

people's very serious and sometimes scandalous memes about terrible, awful, regrettably dismal meetings.

And all of that's true. But if we didn't have meetings, we wouldn't have the U.S. Constitution.

We wouldn't have the King James Bible.

We never would have got Neil Armstrong to the moon without some meetings. So all I'm saying is

let's give meetings a chance.

So if history tells us that meetings can be good, and certainly go back in your own history, you've had some meetings that were great.

You've had some meetings that were helpful.

You may not be able to access that memory all that easily when you're sitting through another dismal

headbanger. But if you're not in that meeting, and if you think objectively, you can recall times

when a meeting was super helpful and really help move a project forward. But it's not true all the

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