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A flipped classroom model for meetings has been useful for me. However the design of time management tools requires some inspection.

The barrier to entry or cost of booking a meeting is significantly lower than the cost of actually having one. Whenever I see this pattern in a system, poor outcomes are found.

The higher up in the organisation the lower the cost to book it, most of the time you can ignore everyone else's schedule.

The design of time management tools like calendars needs updating.

The default calendar setting is Available is another example. As is, free text area for the request body.



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