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Sid (co-founder and CEO) and Josh (Learning & Development) discuss why GitLab does not present in meetings. Doing a presentation during the meeting is not recommended, because you are taking valuable synchronous time away that could be asynchronous. We dive deep into this subject.
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A
As
you
all
know,
you
know,
gitlab
operates
differently
than
any
organization
that
you
may
have
been
a
part
of,
and
you
know,
meetings
are
really
for
q
and
a's
and
sharing
slides
is
generally
not
recommended,
in
fact,
for
most
meetings,
it's
mandatory
to
make
a
pre-recorded
presentation
on
the
material
covered,
so
I
wanted
to
grab
sid
to
dive
deeper
onto
this
topic
and
really
explore
it
really
in
depth
for
you
all
so
sid.
Thank
you
so
much
for
being
here
today.
B
A
B
A
B
A
B
Yeah,
so
one
of
two
things
is
okay:
you
can
you
cannot
have
a
presentation,
that's
fine
or
you
can
have
a
pre-recorded
presentation.
The
thing
that's
not,
okay
is
doing
the
presentation
during
the
meeting
and
that's
because
you're
taking
you're,
taking
valuable
time
that
is
synchronous
and
using
it
for
something
that
might
as
well
have
been
asynchronous.
B
Mostly
when
you're
sharing
slides
there
will
not
be
a
back
and
forth
people
will
just
let
you
run
your
presentation
and
that's
using
the
meeting
time
is
inefficient.
Synchronous
time
is
expensive.
Then
people
need
to
coordinate,
like
all
the
people
have
to
be
in
the
call
at
the
same
time,
so
need
to
coordinate
schedules
which
involves
scheduling
time.
B
People
have
less
flexibility
in
their
game
like
if
you
and
the
more
interruptions
you
have,
the
less
effective
you
can
work
and
things
have
to
be
delayed
like
someone
can
make
the
meeting
who's
essential.
Now
it
has
to
be
delayed
and
rescheduled,
and
also
it's
hard
for
me
to
be
in
control
of
how
I
consume
it.
Where
I
consume
it,
I
can
watch
youtube
in
a
lot
more
locations.
Then
I
can
have
a
zoom
call
like
I
can
watch
youtube
on
my
elliptical
home
trainer
or
on
the
couch
less
slush
than
the
couch.
B
The
location,
the
speed
at
which
you
watch
it,
so
I
frequently
watch
youtube
at
twice
the
speed:
the
ability
to
subtitle
it,
which
really
helps,
especially
if
you're,
not
a
native
speaker,
the
ability
to
go
back
to
something
you
you
didn't
understood
the
first
time,
that's
really
hard.
If
someone
is,
it
is
in
a
meeting
to
ask
that,
because
you're
inconveniencing
everyone
else,
but
if
you're
recording,
if
you're
watching
youtube,
that's
easy
the
ability
to
not
watch
something
and
skip
forward
the
ability,
yeah.
B
A
B
Yeah
everyone's
different,
but
if
you're
asking
about
me,
I
start
the
day
with
a
workout:
do
it
on
the
elliptical,
it's
pretty
boring,
so
I
always
have
youtube
on
and
if
there's
company
presentations,
I
put
them
on
my
calendar,
put
an
invite
on
at
six
o'clock
with
the
links
to
the
youtubes.
I
want
to
watch
for
that
day.
A
Got
it
that
makes
a
lot
of
sense.
I
typically
try
to
block
a
little
bit
of
time
before
each
meeting
to
watch
recordings
or
or
do
it
all
in
the
morning
as
part
of
checking
my
emails
and
to
do's
yeah.
That
makes
sense
yeah.
So
you
know
I'm
curious.
You
know,
git
lab
has
been
around
for
a
long
time.
You
know
what
have
we
tried
in
the
past?
What
worked
you
know
what
didn't
work?
I'd.
Imagine
there's
been
some
iterations
of
this.
B
I
think
google
drive
didn't
work,
so
we
used
to
have
like.
Oh,
it's
just
watch
the
recording
of
google
drive
but
they're
really
hard
to
kind
of
access,
their
hard
to
defined,
abilities,
really
bad
and
then
the
speed
it's
sometimes
like,
not
cached
effectively,
and
it's
hard
to
watch
it
on
another
device
like,
for
example,
television
or
something
like
that.
So
we
really
prefer
to
put
it
on
youtube,
can
be
a
private
youtube,
but
youtube
has
a
lot
of
advantages
and
we
have
a
long
list
of
the
advantages.
A
B
Yeah,
a
couple
of
things
we
touched
on
it
takes
time
to
schedule.
It
times
takes
time
to
reschedule
and
it
might
overlap
with
something
you'd
rather
do
like.
Maybe
something
came
up.
Maybe
something
didn't
come
up,
but
it's
the
you
don't
want
to
cancel,
but
it's
still
something
else
you
have
going
on.
You
can
be
at
only
one
place
at
the
same
time,.
B
So
you
might
want
like
three
hours
of
uninterrupted
working
and
this
meeting
might
come
right
in
the
middle
of
it.
So
all
kinds
of
it's
much
more
restrictive
and
we
want
to
empower
people
give
them
as
much
freedom
as
possible,
including
the
freedom
to
structure
their
work
as
they
see
fit,
and
that's
apart
from
all
the
all
the
other
things
like
subtitles,
speeding,
up,
rewinding
skipping
parts.
A
A
B
This,
I
don't
see
the
relationship
between
selective
watching
and
multitasking,
but
I
do
think
that
a
presentation
might
not
be
relevant
for
everyone.
I
might
have
so
much
knowledge
about
the
subject
that
I
don't
need
to
see
anything.
I
might
have
so
much
knowledge
that
I
can
tell
from
the
slides
which
enough
that
I
don't
need
the
video
or
I
might
it
might
be
opposite.
B
I
might
watch
the
video
twice,
so
it's
it's
really
the
the
assumption
that
the
entire
presentation
is
exactly
as
interesting
to
everyone
and
it's
exactly
worth
watching
one
time
at
one
x,
speed.
That
seems
very
impossible
like
that.
That
is
the
chances
that
that
is
the
case
are
are
zero
basically,
so
that
is
for
sure
there
was
not
a
good
answer
to
who
who
should
watch
it
when
and
how
much.
A
B
A
correct
assumption:
yeah
for
for
q,
a
it's
there's
a
way
to
do
it.
Async
like
we
got
issue
trackers.
You
can
just
ask
an
issue,
a
question
there
and
it's
also
great
to
see
many
meetings.
We
have
like
a
question
from
a
team
member
who
wasn't
able
to
attend
great.
You
can
just
put
it
on
the
agenda.
It
will
get
verbalized,
it
will
get
answered,
there's
an
advantage
if
you
have
it
back
and
forth
like.
If
you
ask
a
question
and
the
other
person
doesn't
understand
they
can
say.
B
Oh,
I
don't
understand
your
question.
You
elaborate
on
that
or
they
give
an
answer.
You
say:
hey
look
I'd
like
some
more
information
on
that.
Maybe
they
misunderstood
your
question
you
can
tell
by
the
answer.
So
what
that's
valuable,
what's
valuable
in
meetings
is
the
back
and
forth,
and
the
back
and
forth
compensates
for
like
having
to
totally
overdo
it.
B
If
you,
if
there
was
no
back
and
forth
you'd,
have
to
give
a
very
long
question,
because
you
want
to
make
sure
it
gets
interpreted
right
and
then
a
very
long
answer,
because
you
want
to
make
sure
you
do
everything.
That's
inefficient
compared
to
a
situation
where
you
can
just
elaborate
more
if
the
times
the
lives
for
it
and
like
you,
can
some
people
don't
appreciate
this
ability
of
people
to
speak
up?
A
Yeah
I
agree
I
I
can
recall
at
previous
jobs
where
I've
been
in
countless
meetings
where
just
slides
are
presented
and
it
people
usually
check
out
and
then,
when
the
q
a
happens
and
there's
interactivity
and
dialogue
there's
way
more
engagement.
People
are
interested,
they
want
to
be
there
and
they
remember
so.
You
know
I
think,
to
our
earlier
point
just
about
when,
when
you
watch,
you
know
pre-recorded
presentations.
A
You
know,
I
think
one
thing
that
I've
heard
across
the
organizations
that
meeting
loans
meeting
loads
have
increased.
If
the
team
members
attend
a
meeting
and
watch
a
recording,
that's
a
bit
of
a
time
investment.
So
how
can
team
members
balance
watching,
according
while
with
attending
a
meeting
along
with
other
priorities
in
their
day.
B
B
Many
of
them
are
recorded
and,
if
not
inform
the
host
so
like
the
meeting
itself
should
that
the
q
a
should
be
recorded
as
well
for
people
who
could
not
attend
real
time,
and
I
think,
if
you're,
if
you're
strapped
for
time,
sometimes
it's
sometimes
you
can
attend
the
meeting,
a
multi-task
and
just
go
to
do
the
relevant
parts.
But
many
times
you
can
put
your
questions
in
up
front
and
just
watch
the
recording
of
the
meeting.
A
Answers
you
know
the
next
question
just
about
different
learning
styles,
because
I
you
know,
I
know
for
me
like
being
more
of
a
sort
of
a
lecturer
based
learner.
Like
I
I
was
the
person
in
in
college.
I
would
sit
in
the
back
of
the
classroom
and
just
love.
Listening
to
the
the
professor
talk
about
towards
slides,
I
think,
if
you're,
that
type
of
learner
watching
the
pre-recording
can
help
you,
you
know
if
you,
if
you
like,
to
digest
information
that
way
that
can
be
really
effective.
B
Yeah,
I
think,
there's
another
angle
and
that's
some
people
really
like
to
kind
of
think
about
their
questions
for
a
bit
and
reflect
on
them
and
it
tends
to
lead
to
better
questions.
If
you
present
in
the
meeting
it
means
you
go
immediately
from
the
presentation
to
the
q
a
there's,
no
time
to
digest.
B
A
B
All
of
them,
except
with
external
parties
in
them,
so
investor
presentations,
customer
presentations,
etc.
You
can
use
them
and
but
some
people
outside
get
lab
might
be
less
familiar
with
that
style
might
and
they
might
not
watch
the
pre-recording
because
they're
not
used
to
that.
So,
if
there's
external
people
in
the
meeting
it's
a
lot.
B
It's
it's
on
all
the
other
attendees
in
the
meeting
to
stop
them
and
say
hey
it's
great,
that
you
made
a
presentation,
but
we
don't
present
in
meetings
here.
If
you
want
to
present,
you
can
record
a
presentation
next
time
up
front,
but
in
we're
using
this,
these
meetings
for
this
back
and
forth
linked
to
this
part
of
that
book,.