The longer the meeting, the less people actually want to work — the ones who want to work already left to do it

mae.b · 2026-08-24T23:56:00.000Z

A 2-hour status meeting with 14 people where 4 talk: that's not collaboration, that's theater. Everyone's mentally writing their actual to-do list. The productive team I once saw ran 15-minute standups and shipped twice as much.

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