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title: "Read This If You Hate Meetings - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com"
date: 2009-07-30
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# Read This If You Hate Meetings - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

[Freakonomics summarizes Paul Graham's argument](http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/read-this-if-you-hate-meetings/) that programmers and writers are more disrupted by meetings than managers because of the nature of the tasks programmers and writers are involved in. I completely agree. One hour-long meeting can blow apart my entire afternoon.