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"The modern business meeting however, might better be compared with a funeral, inthe sense that you have a gathering of people who are wearing uncomfortable clothingand would rather be somewhere else. The major difference is that most funerals have adefinite purpose. Also, nothing is really ever buried in a meeting." Hat tip: Dave Pollard.

Grit before pearls
Ben Schott has a go at the paradoxical blandness of supposedly disruptive startups: Welcome to your bland new world. It’s easy to get stuck in