This NPR story on meetings introduced me to the term “weapon of mass interruption,” as well as to lawmaker Cyril Northcote Parkinson:
- Parkinson’s Law (“It is a commonplace observation that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”)
- Parkinson’s Law of Triviality (Also known, excellently, as “bikeshedding.”)
(Meetings don’t make me mad, Cyril…. just bummed.)