“Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything”
— John Kenneth Galbraith
We already had too many meetings before COVID. It’s only gotten worse.
Many of you have been on the receiving end of this. It’s incredibly frustrating. At best, your time is wasted. You stop paying attention and place the meeting to the background while you do other work. At worst, you get so completely derailed that it affects your ability to work for the rest of the day.
This is an issue that Paul Graham (of Y Combinator fame) addresses in an article written in 2009…
Phil Ting
I write about Scrum and other things.
