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11 Tips for Productive Meetings

Thoughts

The following is a thought piece I wrote for the internal Plastiq wiki. I wanted to share it in case others may find it useful for their place of work. Please be in touch with any questions, comments, or suggestions! A document like this only gets better with iteration.

Meetings are useful for two reasons and two reasons only: information sharing and decision making.  A meeting should be called for one, the other, or both reasons.

Importantly, when I refer to “meetings”, I don’t mean ad hoc chats that may arise spontaneously around the office, although it’s important to be mindful of those too.  Rather, meetings in this context refer to a time and place reserved for a set list of attendees to gather together and accomplish a well-defined goal.  They can range from the informal (one-on-one catchups) to the formal (exec weeklys), and generally they would be well-served to follow some general guidelines.

So, without further ado, here are my 11 tips for productive meetings (in no particular order)…

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Export MySQL Query Results to CSV

Dev

If you’re SSH’d into a MySQL server and want to export MySQL query results to CSV (readable by Excel), simply add the below snippet to the end of your query.

INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/results.csv' 
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"' 
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'

Note that ‘/tmp/results.csv’ in the code above should correspond to a writeable destination, and the file can’t already exist.

The Emperor’s Summer Palace

Art

I spent the summer of 2009 traveling around China teaching English and SAT prep.  It was a wild experience, and I learned a lot about myself during the trip.  This graphic spent about three years as the background on my computer, and it was taken at the Emperor’s Summer Palace in Beijing, China.

summer-palace

Where in the world is Kyle Suzuki?

Prose

At 24, bones still wet with dew from the dawn of adulthood, I took an adventure.

And by adventure, I mean vacation. For the price of a month’s rent in Boston, I had purchased the illusion of adventure, bookended by cushy, leather airline seats and documented by a camera with more horsepower than the Apollo missions. My destination? Iceland.

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