Launching x.ai – a personal assistant who schedules meetings for you
Alex, Matt, Marcos, Amy Ingram and I are launching an artificial intelligence powered personal assistant that schedules meetings for you….
Scheduling a meeting is 3 independent actions
I am falling in love with all the processes surrounding meeting scheduling, but the more time I spend with executives…
Our future relationship with robots
With Amazon testing its Drone Delivery Program, and the launch of Google Glass, I can’t help but to think about…
3 Meeting Locations
Google recently made an update to their location field inside their Calendar product and launched it under the following description:…
3 approaches to organize an ever-changing calendar and complex schedule
Interaction workers see ~50 hours per month spent on reading and answering email (on average ~109 emails per day) –…
5 reasons for a meeting
David Allen and his Getting Things Done movement preaches 5 reasons for a meeting – reasons which I really like –…
Intelligent agents will mine our inbox for tasks to solve
Peter Yared wrote an interesting post over on TechCrunch “Email Is Now Just Another Stream”, which suggested the realistic, but…
~10 billion formal meetings conducted a year (US)
I read an interesting research paper on Meeting Analysis earlier this week and there was one organizational metric which caught…
Default Meeting Duration (23 min. for a tele-conference)
I did 1,019 meetings in 2012 (as a startup founder) and to no surprise, most of them were scheduled as…
Death to email? I don't think so. Email volume up 18% in 2013
Pretty much anyone with an email account has a love/hate relationship with emails. We coordinate our weekend plans there. We…
~50 hours per month spent on reading and answering email
I read an interesting report by McKinsey on the Social Economy this morning, but what really caught my eye was a…