Seneca: time is the only real resource
A meeting looks free because nobody invoices you for it. Eight people for ninety minutes is twelve hours, and those hours went somewhere.
The budget has a spreadsheet. The hours have nothing — and Seneca says time is the one thing you cannot get more of: meetings cost, 'later' means 'never', and the worst outcomes are worth thinking through tonight.
Before your next meeting, write the multiplication at the top of the agenda: people times length. At the end, say out loud which decisions it bought. If there were none, a message will do next time.
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Engraving, 1891, after the Berlin marble herm — the one reliably identified likeness. PD-Meyers — Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, c. 1891
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