Taking notes works your brain, helps your memory, and strengthens understanding.
replyI learned very quickly in my undergraduate days that the act of physically writing down information was the best way for me personally to retain knowledge.
replyI’ve got over a decade of work experience now and I have like 100 notebooks filled with notes from nearly every day. I routinely find that my own notes differ from auto written transcripts of meetings. Mostly it’s minor things, but every once in a while the automatic transcription gets something critically wrong.
I always used to take notes and casually read minutes out of habit after meetings and pick up on stuff that sounded weird and more and more recently that's been feeling like a superpower to just read things and think through the implications and raise them because people are not picking up on them.
replyI am horrified of the idea that HR can listen/review every single ~private conversation, that may include frustrations with leadership, family problems, or personal health information that is shared with a trusted manager or coworker, not some HR person.
replyThen these changes are actually a good thing because you get the opportunity to learn that they've had that power for years.
replyExcept that the summaries can be totally inaccurate. And then people think they have proof that so-and-so said something, when maybe they never said that.
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