# Meeting time split — agenda vs small talk vs Ashton tangents (ESTIMATES)

Scope: last 4 recorded meetings per series (Core Team Weekly, Biz-Dev & Partnerships Weekly, Communications Weekly, Marketing Weekly) + Operations Call 1 as an extra (not in averages). Newer meetings through 26 Oct 2026 were pulled from Drive. Every number is a judgment-based estimate, not a measurement.

## Rubric
- **On-agenda (A):** discussion of an item listed on that meeting's Notion agenda/action items (or, where the page was empty, the Gemini Summary/Next steps), plus needed context, decisions, status updates and assignments. An agenda-listed topic counts as A even when Ashton speaks at length (see the monologue column).
- **Greetings/small talk (G):** hellos, waiting for people, audio/recording troubleshooting, jokes, personal chat, breaks, goodbyes.
- **Adjacent (J):** real company work that is NOT on that meeting's agenda (e.g. BD/partnership strategy in a comms meeting, tool admin, token allocation not listed), or other people's side chatter. Categories G+J together = the user's bucket 2 ('greetings, small talk, adjacent').
- **Ashton tangent (T):** Ashton-dominant stretch (>=75% of the words in the segment, ~1+ min) on topics that are not agenda items and don't produce a decision/action: personal interests, history/geopolitics lectures, worldview lore, anecdotes (e.g. martial arts, British Empire/East India Company, left/right politics).
- Method: transcript split at Gemini's own timestamp blocks (47-173 blocks per meeting, ~1 min each); each block gets ONE label (so a block with mixed content is rounded); durations summed (duration-weighted, not turn count). Agenda items were matched from Notion Calendar pages.

## Per-meeting table

| Date | Series | Min | % agenda | % small talk | % adjacent | % small+adjacent | % Ashton tangent | (of agenda: Ashton monologue >=90%) | Ashton word share | Agenda source | Notion page | Drive notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | Core Team | 185 | 94.4 | 1.9 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 0.5 | 57.2 | 78.2 | Notion | [Core Call Weekly 12](https://app.notion.com/p/3e7c2181d18481778882f193095cedc5) | [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zUMAIrO1-4jRkqwq4P-R1MP_dIFGLlujW20gQ8n34vY/edit) |
| 2026-10-12 | Core Team | 91 | 79.5 | 6.1 | 14.3 | 20.5 | 0.0 | 54.0 | 88.8 | Notion | [Core Call Weekly 13](https://app.notion.com/p/3f0c2181d18481a59ec7f4e10b373a59) | [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1efczOdj3JXnT0fLGA3ElxRT6Azz7jTf_ilcfMrl15K0/edit) |
| 2026-10-19 | Core Team | 104 | 95.3 | 3.0 | 1.8 | 4.7 | 0.0 | 53.3 | 83.0 | Notion | [Core Call Weekly 14](https://app.notion.com/p/3f7c2181d1848139a5f7c120c55c7c34) | [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Sv8ogm4nsGINnh19tINGfTweVrUfFdzVGBmgcEkeCY/edit) |
| 2026-10-26 | Core Team | 63 | 81.4 | 11.5 | 7.1 | 18.6 | 0.0 | 72.2 | 96.8 | Notion | [Core Call Weekly 15](https://app.notion.com/p/3f7c2181d18481de924de5a5e6defa6a) | [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q78FQDwo3B7LrvcNXfZq2SgirZpdSfsmp3HWsfjTRBw/edit) |
| 2026-09-23 | Biz-Dev | 69 | 46.4 | 4.8 | 48.9 | 53.6 | 0.0 | 26.8 | 88.3 | Notion | [Biz-Dev & Partnerships Weekly 08](https://app.notion.com/p/3ddc2181d1848024b605e01decb33df3) | [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1axb4MlJ5mkRPOISYNHDAjo0QOyl8NAc2Kr6qPkY-dBY/edit) |
| 2026-09-30 | Biz-Dev | 86 | 70.5 | 10.4 | 19.0 | 29.5 | 0.0 | 37.6 | 76.8 | Notion | [Biz-Dev & Partnerships Weekly 09](https://app.notion.com/p/3e7c2181d18481c0a1dfe847bd566360) | [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UZ6JFyKz-m8MOJ2SyziZLGZ7iVon1FDnmHmEpWI-ows/edit) |
| 2026-10-07 | Biz-Dev | 87 | 47.2 | 24.3 | 5.7 | 30.0 | 22.8 | 30.1 | 84.3 | Notion | [Biz-Dev & Partnerships Weekly 10](https://app.notion.com/p/3ebc2181d184813c9b28cada24b3f6f1) | [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d_rAdhobAkThQei7-Qk_WSBuMcwfFLhRgQx-vDFeS9I/edit) |
| 2026-10-14 | Biz-Dev | 17 | 92.7 | 0.0 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 0.0 | 58.8 | 93.0 | Gemini summary/next steps (Notion page empty) | [Biz-Dev & Partnerships Weekly 11 (page empty)](https://app.notion.com/p/3f6c2181d1848140b78ddce86893a3ac) | [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NFfQj5vvGqDeI7o-5xH3_KN7zQ4F02y5UyiNMGjnPjU/edit) |
| 2026-09-30 | Communications | 73 | 31.5 | 0.0 | 66.0 | 66.0 | 2.5 | 19.1 | 84.5 | Notion | [Communications Weekly 10](https://app.notion.com/p/3e4c2181d184805f957cefd8d6fa10ab) | [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QUYIk1QsCfdJ5BK8EwZQyOms0ArCAHo47xVitZITHMw/edit) |
| 2026-10-07 | Communications | 83 | 71.5 | 3.6 | 24.9 | 28.5 | 0.0 | 27.2 | 74.9 | Notion | [Communications Weekly 11](https://app.notion.com/p/3e7c2181d18481b59765e3e8e375b2a7) | [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pY_IeFU1q_Amr93ZRN8ChjhhKCSEoE-zpnQQq0Jwiks/edit) |
| 2026-10-14 | Communications | 65 | 66.7 | 1.3 | 32.0 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 41.6 | 83.5 | Notion | [Communications Weekly 12](https://app.notion.com/p/3f3c2181d18480cc8954ec6c61a6817a) | [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DDHof4HeR8cuPbBM3tu6wpHMgMpMuf7pFw7ick9c7Nc/edit) |
| 2026-10-22 | Communications | 63 | 13.4 | 4.3 | 9.2 | 13.5 | 73.1 | 13.4 | 91.9 | Notion | [Communications Weekly 13](https://app.notion.com/p/3f7c2181d18481bd8a4be07c1eae538e) | [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PVx1L1Htcn0LPN_xTUvXmFb5O61EX-4GtwVO6nSvQz8/edit) |
| 2026-08-12 | Marketing | 70 | 69.7 | 0.0 | 30.3 | 30.3 | 0.0 | 29.7 | 76.3 | Notion | [Communications Weekly 03](https://app.notion.com/p/3bac2181d18480b48227edc9503d3fc9) | [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j1SXmKtO_hVDYdGVdIy60LIHZBRi4c0oozc9cS2h6Cs/edit) |
| 2026-08-26 | Marketing | 89 | 42.8 | 1.6 | 26.3 | 27.9 | 29.3 | 17.2 | 77.9 | Notion | [Communications Weekly 05](https://app.notion.com/p/3c1c2181d184800d8e4cf7ce48ef4b0e) | [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g8axDUm7yr9lriN-uYl-vzGR1gJCFdwHNJA0eoH2Lp0/edit) |
| 2026-09-02 | Marketing | 85 | 77.7 | 6.3 | 7.3 | 13.7 | 8.7 | 36.1 | 79.5 | Notion | [Communications Weekly 06](https://app.notion.com/p/3c9c2181d184803ab0bbc1985c1fab51) | [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15v8RGdQerikXdAPRjwoeN7EikYa7vsF_NTZPWsdc9Zs/edit) |
| 2026-09-03 | Marketing | 135 | 73.9 | 12.3 | 13.8 | 26.1 | 0.0 | 29.0 | 77.9 | Notion | [Communications Weekly 06 (same page, continuation)](https://app.notion.com/p/3c9c2181d184803ab0bbc1985c1fab51) | [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KYfqziWG9aekf0EE_czA_KXJYF9HXTp2V4-27B83NM0/edit) |
| 2026-10-19 | Operations (extra) | 18 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 50.7 | 83.1 | Notion | [Operations Call 1](https://app.notion.com/p/3fac2181d184810ca703d8a6b901b35c) | [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M8rtVMBWVrIAHByAJ5LKAKjVJCNcUuAoEy_mZ2UfXYE/edit) |

## Per-series averages (mean of the 4 meetings; duration-weighted in brackets)

| Series | agenda % | small talk % | adjacent % | small+adjacent % | Ashton tangent % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core Team | 87.7 (89.7) | 5.6 (4.4) | 6.6 (5.7) | 12.2 (10.1) | 0.1 (0.2) |
| Biz-Dev | 64.2 (57.7) | 9.9 (12.9) | 20.2 (21.7) | 30.1 (34.7) | 5.7 (7.7) |
| Communications | 45.8 (47.2) | 2.3 (2.3) | 33.0 (33.5) | 35.3 (35.9) | 18.9 (16.9) |
| Marketing | 66.0 (66.6) | 5.1 (6.2) | 19.4 (18.3) | 24.5 (24.5) | 9.5 (8.9) |
| ALL (16 meetings) | 65.9 (68.4) | 5.7 (6.1) | 19.8 (18.1) | 25.5 (24.1) | 8.6 (7.5) |

**Overall (16 meetings, 1366 min): ~66% agenda, ~26% small talk/adjacent (~6% pure small talk, ~20% adjacent), ~9% Ashton tangents** (mean of meetings); duration-weighted 68/24/8.

## Trend (Aug -> Oct)
See c_trend_over_time.png. Agenda share rises from ~43-70% (Aug marketing meetings) to 64-81% in October pooled weeks, but with big single-meeting spikes of tangents: Marketing 26 Aug (29%), Biz-Dev 7 Oct (23%, ~20 min of martial-arts lecture, plus ~25 min of sleep/health small talk), Communications 22 Oct (73%, book-driven lecture on empires/cabals; none of the listed Notion agenda items were covered). Core Team Weekly is consistently the most agenda-bound (88% avg) but ~53-72% of its agenda time is Ashton speaking in near-monologue (>=90% of words).

## Caveats
- Single label per ~1-min block; mixed blocks are rounded. Real split is blurrier; treat +/-10 points per meeting as plausible.
- Notion agenda pages are living docs edited after meetings (contain post-meeting notes) and were not versioned, so some items may postdate the meeting; Notion dates are week-start (Monday) planning dates, matched to meeting by week + content.
- Marketing Weekly (Drive title until 3 Sep) maps to the Notion 'Communications' series (Comms Weekly 03/05/06); 3 Sep continuation shares the 2 Sep page. Biz-Dev 14 Oct Notion page was empty -> Gemini summary used (short 17-min meeting, all labelled agenda except last block).
- Transcript is machine-generated; speaker attribution is mostly good but some turns are merged/mislabelled; Ashton's word share (76-97%) is likely slightly inflated by merged turns.
- 30.txt (5 Oct Core, 185 min) and 28.txt (3 Sep, includes a ~16 min break labelled small talk) are long; 5 Oct agenda was Ashton's own philosophical outline, so tangent% there is ~0 by rubric even though he monologued — see monologue column.
- Not reviewed line-by-line: I skimmed ~100-150 chars of each block plus spot-checked ~40 blocks in full; boundary blocks may be misclassified.
- Manual judgments are in labels.py; per-block labels in segments_labels.csv.