Here are other reasons why I think adopting the policy of “by default all meetings (in-person and virtual) are recorded”:
Since memory isn’t great, being able to see what you actually thought few years ago might help you come upon some insights that you otherwise wouldn’t be able to have
Building up this large corpus of data about your org seems especially valuable when we get LLMs that can make good use of this context.
It’s satisfying to keep track of how your beliefs change
Since my org is small and high-trust, I don’t see any good reasons to not do this. That’s why I’m going to push for it at my org.
Yep, honestly, I really deeply hate the way legally admissible evidence works where keeping any kind of record becomes a liability, and can be revealed in discovery in a huge range of lawsuits.
My guess is this usually isn’t worth worrying much about, but it does make me quite sad.
Here are other reasons why I think adopting the policy of “by default all meetings (in-person and virtual) are recorded”:
Since memory isn’t great, being able to see what you actually thought few years ago might help you come upon some insights that you otherwise wouldn’t be able to have
Building up this large corpus of data about your org seems especially valuable when we get LLMs that can make good use of this context.
It’s satisfying to keep track of how your beliefs change
Since my org is small and high-trust, I don’t see any good reasons to not do this. That’s why I’m going to push for it at my org.
seems probably legally risky.
Yep, honestly, I really deeply hate the way legally admissible evidence works where keeping any kind of record becomes a liability, and can be revealed in discovery in a huge range of lawsuits.
My guess is this usually isn’t worth worrying much about, but it does make me quite sad.