From now on I only do themed meetups, where someone kicks off a topic or leads an activity. That’s how we did early refactorings meetups — as field trips/activities/going to talks together/deep dives.
Then we got lazy and it degenerated to meetups for the sake of meetups. 😬😳
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This is actually Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy applied to meetups. Call it the Iron Law of Meetups: meetups for the sake of X will give way to meetups for the sake of meetups.
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My book club has been going for 2 years now. Is still a book club - pretty amazing, we meet at the local bar and I figured it would become monthly bar night fast, but somehow it keeps going.
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