The Minutes Have Entered Their Creative-Writing Era
Updated: Oct 13
Opinion & satire
Spotted: a meeting record auditioning for a daytime Emmy.
Our community has already had a dispute over proposed minutes that described people’s emotions and interpreted their behavior. Apparently, motions and votes needed a supporting cast.
But meeting minutes have a perfectly respectable job: record what happened.
Who made the motion? What was amended? How did the vote go?
Once we start assigning feelings, explaining intentions, and giving everyone a character arc, we have wandered into historical fiction.
If a description is disputed, pull up the recording. Let the actual words do the talking.
A transcript may lack dramatic flair, but it has one excellent quality: it does not need to remember itself more favorably.
Save the director’s cut for movie night.
Until the next agenda drops,
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