My latest newsletter is trending on Hacker News!
It's a story from 2011 about how Larry Page tried enacting strict rules and conventions around meetings, in an attempt to get Google to stop slowing down. These were widely mocked and mostly went away, except for some vestiges that remain like "hour-long meetings are booked for 50 minutes."
One team took advantage of the 50-minute meeting rule in an unexpected way. Read more to find out how!
https://www.clientserver.dev/p/malicious-compliance-by-booking-an