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I think the basic thought is flawed, I would argue that this is not completely true:

> Needless to say, the best meetings are the ones you never attend in the first place.

The best (avoided) meetings are the ones that are pointless and *are cancelled before they happen*.

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That was my silly line that I put in these guys' text to appeal to what I know about how HN feels about meetings.

You've done me one better in this respect, point taken!

Edit: for those curious about how these posts get made—I work with the founders to try to figure out how to talk about their startup in a way that might appeal to HN. See https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html for the instructions I send to YC founders.

It's not possible to get this perfect, but we can usually avoid obvious pitfalls. With a startup like Circleback, for example, I felt it would be important that the text not feel like it was written primarily for managers. Hence the pg essay link as well. (I might have pushed this too far, though, because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39621356 makes some good points.)

It's not a question of making anything up, of course—the most important thing is that everything be true. But that still leaves a lot of range about what points to emphasize, and there I try to be useful to founders, especially founders who haven't spent countless hours on HN and thus don't have an instinct for the culture here.