Google Ops Presentation and Meeting Formats

Fri Jan 27 11:39:36 PST 2006

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 09:53:01AM -0800, Danny Howard wrote:
> It seemed ... well, it seemed that every slide had a 90% overhead of
> SysAdmins asking, sometimes insightful, and often pointless questions.
> My favorites were the ones where ... okay, I'm not flaming.  But ... I
> mean, a lot of the questions were "I have an extremely short attention
> span so I'm going to ask you now a question which you would ordinarily
> have answered on the next slide were I not interrupting you."
> 
> My question, is, do BayLISA presentations normally go like this?  Or was

I've gone to BayLISA presentations for the last 11 years or so, on and off
(mostly off lately).  In my experience, and the experience of some of the
people I work with, they've suffered from the "I want to sound
smart/funny/insightful so I'm going to make a comment in the form of a
question RIGHT NOW rather than waiting" syndrome for approximately 11 of
these last 11 years.

-roy