# Tim Harford — Article — What we get wrong about meetings – and how to make them worth attending

<http://timharford.com/2019/08/what-we-get-wrong-about-meetings-and-how-to-make-them-worth-attending/>

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## What Jamie wrote

A short essay on meetings.

> A good meeting is a good meeting less because of what happens at the time, but because of what came before — and most importantly, what comes after.

This is very true.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT116: Weekly Thing #116 / Sep 7, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/116/), Notable Links 📌

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