Let’s deal with the real reason we don’t ask to be in these conversations. They are boring. At least, they’re often boring. I get that. You’d rather be doing something else. You’d rather be pushing pixels around on your giant monitor while listening to the new War on Drugs on your expensive headphones. I would too. But then shit hits our desk. We look through it. We partially understand it. We may even want to discuss it, which is more difficult now because all the decision-makers will tell you the time for discussion came and went. So, we roll our eyes and we execute it. That’s a shitty way
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