| As someone who has something on the order of 20-30 meetings a week, time management and preparedness are a critical path for success. Here's some free "customer problems" that I would love a calendar product to address. * Meetings without stated purposes and expected outcomes - even if it just said "we're spitballing around Topic X and we just want ideas on the next hill to take", that would be so helpful to enforce upon creation and then sharing as part of the "upcoming meeting" notifications, upon forwarding to others, etc. Everything starts with "why." * Helping me "prepare" for those meetings by finding useful context (Outlook/Teams has started doing this, by the way, it's kinda eh now but I expect it to be fairly awesome and "just work" in the next couple of years because the problem and solution are fairly clear, but the integrations with data sources will take time - see Project Cortex as a path forward for this within orgs, but for external meetings ...?) * Letting me have "flexible" meetings where if something comes in that's a conflict, giving me options to auto-address the conflict (move meeting, cancel) or provide options and let me manually confirm. * Again, Microsoft is working on this, but I think some kind of - even extremely basic - graph / mindmap view of a meeting and its context - kind of like a visual syllabus or bulletin board so you can see how this meeting fits into a larger project / initiative But also, the biggest one by far would be instituting ways to generate "time affluence" - I need "SEIZE THE DAY"-style interventions! https://behavioralscientist.org/time-confetti-and-the-broken... |
For me, even just one meeting on a given day exhausts me, and while the wfh is nice, it's led to many more 'meetings', whether just calls or proper zoom meetups. I'm not a fan.