{"id":1688,"date":"2003-09-04T16:11:58","date_gmt":"2003-09-05T06:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/04\/meetings-are-the-mind-killer\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T14:49:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:49:25","slug":"meetings-are-the-mind-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/04\/meetings-are-the-mind-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Meetings are the mind killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13542,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.decafbad.com\\\/blog\\\/geek\\\/litany_meetings.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13543,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/macartisan.typepad.com\\\/cupertino\\\/2003\\\/09\\\/truly_perl_wiza.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20041228061018\\\/http:\\\/\\\/macartisan.typepad.com:80\\\/cupertino\\\/2003\\\/09\\\/truly_perl_wiza.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 11:35:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 18:53:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 18:53:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I must not attend meetings. Meetings are the mind killer. Meetings are the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my meeting. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the wasted time has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decafbad.com\/blog\/geek\/litany_meetings.html\" title=\"Litany against meetings, courtesy of purl\">0xDECAFBAD<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/macartisan.typepad.com\/cupertino\/2003\/09\/truly_perl_wiza.html\" title=\"Truly, Perl Wizards Are Subtle...\">Will Parker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Incidentally, Will looks to be right up my alley &#8212; Dean supporter, TypePad user, and not only a Mac user, but part of the Microsoft Office for Mac development team. He&#8217;s getting added to my reading list!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must not attend meetings. Meetings are the mind killer. Meetings re the little-death that brings total obliteration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}