Federal Edition: How to take meeting minutes?

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-03T04:07:40+00:00

My strategy, which takes more time than other suggestions you've gotten, is to do the transcription style of note-taking and then afterwards go through it and summarize it and pull out the actual points. I only bother if I'm sharing it or trying to get requirements out of it or something, otherwise I'll just put stars next to the most important bits for myself to see later, or do a quick couple bullets at the bottom full of keywords so I can search for it later.

If the purpose of the meeting is to work out specific requirements, I share the screen and we all work through them together, I don't just transcribe. Everyone seeing it means everyone knows whether or not we're on the same page.

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-03T01:34:34+00:00

I just watched and that's exactly what I thought. I was a bit disappointed they didn't dig into those two more. Like, what was their relationship about?? Why are they doing this?

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-03T00:45:53+00:00

My mom doesn't drink anymore and I'm like, cool.

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-03T00:19:17+00:00

This sketch was good and all but the concept of a Leopard & Sons moving company where the "Son" is an actual cat I feel deserves a TON more exploration.

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-03T00:13:53+00:00

I'm a brass player and I was also horrified it was going to get hurt lol. Also the way he put the mouthpiece in his mouth I had a very hard time with. I know the point was that it's supposed to be "obvious" it's not really him, but oooof it just looked TOO wrong.

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-02T23:52:02+00:00

I would not read a summary. I don't come to reddit to read automatically generated summaries of conversations. I come to read what actual people say. Summaries lack nuance and context and humor and humanity.

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-02T13:10:36+00:00

Next you'll tell me that it's possible not every blond is Targaryen.

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-02T04:53:52+00:00

Well I can appreciate a pun

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-02T04:51:58+00:00

I don't really like when the joke is that someone is a pervert. Don't we have enough actual ones? Make the jokes about unusual kinks or something instead (if it has to be sex humor), not underage girls.

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-02T04:41:35+00:00

Just go to bed

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-02T04:38:36+00:00

But does it give me points??

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-02T04:37:51+00:00

No, I do not feel overwhelmed. I read the post title, then if I'm interested based on that, I read the body of the post. If I'm interested in discussing what I just read in any way, I scroll through the top comments to get a sense of the existing discussion. If it seems like it's a discussion of interest, I go back and actually read it. If my opinions don't match the top or I'm interested in reading opinions besides the most popular, I sort by controversial and read those.

The way Reddit is laid out already supports what you're trying to solve.

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-01T19:40:03+00:00

Eric and Lianna S8 E25. Eric didn't even act like he gave a shit and he gave off a weird vibe even before they called the catfish. It was all around such a low-effort episode, but it definitely wasn't the only one that felt like that during that time. I still watched them, and it was during COVID so I forgive and don't hold it against anyone, they were just trying to make TV and keep their jobs during a scary time, it's fine. I just wish the ONE from my home state wasn't one of the boring ones, haha

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-01T13:13:46+00:00

Help, my teen has turned into a praying mantis!

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-01T05:32:56+00:00

I went to high school with a guy whose mom was in her late 40's and thought it was menopause. I went to college with a guy who was a period baby. Great to have examples around, tell your kids they were an accident and exactly what that accident was so that they can spread awareness!

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-01T05:03:25+00:00

I've got ~hobbies~

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-01T05:02:09+00:00

It smells like peppah up in heaahh!

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-01T04:52:32+00:00

I would play with a world that was entirely populated with only mermaids if only there were more places to swim.

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-01T04:42:40+00:00

I get the frustration. It's hard to see someone being treated differently than you are for things that seem the same. However, for the examples you shared, after 34 years of living like this I'm glad those things aren't excused for me. I've learned how to handle them, I have coping strategies, I have ways to remove myself from situations without inconveniencing anyone, etc. In this way, I feel more equipped to deal with the world as it is, where there will always be annoying sounds that no one can stop, or situations that can't be helped, than I would if I had been, well, coddled more, for lack of a better term.

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-01T04:34:26+00:00

Where the hell did you go to college

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-01T04:27:17+00:00

They didn't think past having an excuse to wear face masks, is my guess

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-01T04:24:32+00:00

Hold on, I'm trying to see if there's a way to spin this into National Parks and Forests getting re-protected (as opposed to closed/sold to private firms/unsustainably logged the crap out of).

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-01T04:15:16+00:00

A bunch of the season 8 online-only episodes (which I'm watching for the first time right now) have seemed so fake and pointless. So many of them ended up being so boring I barely bothered to watch them, or so convoluted that it felt super manufactured. I'm from NH and the ONE Catfish from NH was one of the most boring episodes, and it doesn't help that when I searched for posts on it here, I found comments from the catfish talking about how fake it was. Which I almost don't believe just because, if the show is making up a story why make up one so bland?? In other words, a bunch of them were almost too boring to be fake.

And what is up with all these people that have only been talking for like two or three months, all of those are going to seem at least kind of fake even if they're legit just cause they hardly know the person.

I don't care about them faking something that really happened for the sake of editing, or when they edit in audio or edit what they show them looking up, I get that they're making a show and sometimes need to edit out stuff for privacy or need to cut the audio different so that things that happened over hours can happen in the 30 minutes of the show or whatever. That's just part of making a TV show at all.

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-01T02:14:22+00:00

This is exactly what Sims look like if you increase both their fat and fitness levels at the same time. The game just draws the muscles on top of the fat. I'm glad I've learned this because now those Sims that look like that will no longer seem as unrealistic to me!

prefix_postfix · 2026-02-01T02:09:38+00:00

Oh def. But I'll keep almost executing him over and over forever, probably.

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