Re: [sudo-discuss] meetings, learnings from biohacking

TL;DR -- please don't try to solve reticence to attend meetings with more meetings of any kind. Introverts have limited social energy, and if they have spent any time thinking about this, they will realize that it has to be metered carefully. http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/extravert-a… Extroverts tend to feel that more social time is always justified, which is why meetings tend to expand in all situations where extroverts outnumber introverts -- which is basically most of the time in an organizational setting... except perhaps in libraries and hackerspaces :) The greater the number of extroverts, the more the extroverts socialize and feel that this time is productive, which creates more demand for more meetings, which makes the introverts feel unproductive and marginalized. Corporations tend to have a disproportionate number of ESTJs (extroverted-sensing-thinking-judging) types. This was covered in a paper circa 1999 (I need to find it again, I wrote a paper referencing it), wherein they found that as corporations grow from small to medium to large, the diversity of personality types dramatically decreases, especially in positions of power. Specifically (with arrows indicating greater weight towards a skewed ratio): E/I -->> E S/N --> S T/F --> T J/P -->> J There are of course problems with the MBTI, well-discussed in an episode of Rationally Speaking a few months back, and also some covered on this page (which is also a podcast): http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4221 ...but even if it lacks predictive power, its use as a descriptive tool to look at broad patterns is still somewhat respectable. I think it's interesting that the "managerial type", ESTJ, appears consistent at least across American and Chinese cultures, which helps address the "isn't this Western-cultural specific" complaint: https://www.capt.org/JPT/article/JPT_Vol69_1209.pdf Introverts also tend not to speak up in opposition to what extroverts are doing, for obvious reasons. They prefer to withdraw and spend time on things that recharge their social energy. The point: * Extroverts feel energized from social encounters and want more of them; introverts feel drained by social encounters and try to avoid them. * Extroverts tend to "select" other extroverts for participation, believing they are just better team players. * Introverts tend to be penalized for their unwillingness to participate in social encounters, leading to a more skewed proportion of extroverts to introverts as introverts become marginalized. Conclusion: * You can't solve meeting reticence with more meetings. --Naomi, the "I can pretend to be an extrovert sometimes" introvert, INTP On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote: -- Naomi Theora Most naomi(a)nthmost.com +1-415-728-7490 skype: nthmost http://twitter.com/nthmost