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If there is such a thing in our world as a business meeting<ref>Translators note: Modern translations of this work render “[[meeting|business meeting]]” as [[all-hands conference call]]</ref> (“and,” said [[Büchstein]], “take it from me, there most definitely is”) — then it is not, as [[Descartes]] contended, self-evidently true that the only certain thing in the universe is the incorporeal “I” as a ''thinking thing'' (“[[res cogitans]]”).  
If there is such a thing in our world as a business meeting<ref>Translators note: Modern translations of this work render “[[meeting|business meeting]]” as [[all-hands conference call]]</ref> (“and,” said [[Büchstein]], “take it from me, there most definitely is”) — then it is not, as [[Descartes]] contended, self-evidently true that the only certain thing in the universe is the incorporeal “I” as a ''thinking thing'' (“[[res cogitans]]”).  


:“Just as one cannot clap one-handed, one cannot have a meeting by oneself, however appealing that idea must on cursory examination seem. ''I'' must exist — no quibble with that — but so, in the context of a [[steering committee]], operational failure remediation work stream, weekly line manager one-to-one or [[conference call]] must ''you''.”<ref>[[Büchstein]], ''[[Discourse on the Discourse]]'', §3,425.</ref>
:“Just as one cannot clap one-handed, one cannot have a meeting by oneself, however appealing that idea must on cursory examination seem. ''I'' must exist — no quibble with that — but so, in the context of a [[steering committee]], operational failure remediation work stream, weekly line manager one-to-one or [[conference call]] must ''you''.”<ref>[[Büchstein]], ''[[Discourse on Intercourse]]'', §3,425.</ref>


[[Büchstein]] went on to consider the nature of a “meetee”: “''You''” must also exist, as a ''talking thing'' (“[[res verbositans]]”), and so must the [[project manager]] as an ''action-assigning thing'' (“[[res bossitans]]”)
[[Büchstein]] went on to consider the nature of a “meetee”: “''You''” must also exist, as a ''talking thing'' (“[[res verbositans]]”), and so must the [[project manager]] as an ''action-assigning thing'' (“[[res bossitans]]”)


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*[[Otto Büchstein]] and his rightly forgotten ''[[Discourse on the Discourse]]''
*[[Otto Büchstein]] and his rightly forgotten ''[[Discourse on Intercourse]]''
*[[René Descartes]] and his more longevitous ''[[Discourse on the Method]]''
*[[René Descartes]] and his more longevitous ''[[Discourse on the Method]]''
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Büchstein’s famous maxim, loosely translated as “we are in a meeting, therefore you exist[1], which he formulated to disprove central thesis from DescartesDiscourse on the Method and thus establish the non-existence of an omnipotent benevolent god, for no such deity could exist in a universe where all-hands conference calls are an inevitability.

If there is such a thing in our world as a business meeting[2] (“and,” said Büchstein, “take it from me, there most definitely is”) — then it is not, as Descartes contended, self-evidently true that the only certain thing in the universe is the incorporeal “I” as a thinking thing (“res cogitans”).

“Just as one cannot clap one-handed, one cannot have a meeting by oneself, however appealing that idea must on cursory examination seem. I must exist — no quibble with that — but so, in the context of a steering committee, operational failure remediation work stream, weekly line manager one-to-one or conference call must you.”[3]

Büchstein went on to consider the nature of a “meetee”: “You” must also exist, as a talking thing (“res verbositans”), and so must the project manager as an action-assigning thing (“res bossitans”)

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  1. The JC is, as ever, grateful for the intervention of his secret Latin advisor in formulating this maxim.
  2. Translators note: Modern translations of this work render “business meeting” as all-hands conference call
  3. Büchstein, Discourse on Intercourse, §3,425.